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The following steps are being taken by the
Government to ensure adequate and timely availability of fertilizers at state
level as per projected requirement by Department of Agriculture and Cooperation
(DAC):
(a) The
month-wise demand is assessed and projected by the Department of Agriculture
& Cooperation (DAC) in consultation with the State Governments, before
commencement of each cropping season. Accordingly, month-wise, state-wise
supply plan is made by Department of Fertilizers and issued to the states
(including Tamil Nadu) and fertilizer companies. State Governments are
responsible for monitoring the availability intra-state.
(b) DOF,
continuously monitors the availability through following system:
i)
The
movement of all major subsidized fertilizers is being monitored throughout the
country by an on-line web based monitoring system (www.urvarak.co.in) also called as
Fertilizer Monitoring System (FMS);
ii)
The State
Governments are regularly advised to coordinate with manufacturers and
importers of fertilizers for streamlining the supplies through timely placement
of indents for railway rakes through their state institutional agencies like Markfed etc.
iii)
Regular
weekly Video conference is conducted jointly by Department of Agriculture &
Cooperation (DAC), Department of Fertilizers (DoF),
and Ministry of Railways with State Agriculture Officials and corrective
actions are taken to dispatch fertilizer as indicated by the State governments.
iv)
The gap
in the demand and domestic production of fertilizer is met through imports.
(c)
Department
of Fertilizer is providing reimbursement of rail freight on movement of all the
chemical fertilizers (Urea, DAP,MOP and NPK) for all the states (including
Tamil Nadu) as a primary freight subsidy and along with this secondary freight
subsidy for distribution from rail head to block level in case of urea only.
(d)
Department of Fertilizers (DOF)
has notified Special Freight Scheme for P &K fertilizers (except SSP), w. e. f. 01.04.2012, for giving subsidy for secondary movement for
difficult, hilly and accessible States like Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal
Pradesh, Uttarakhand, all North Eastern States
and Andaman & Nicobar Islands, in
order to have equitable distribution of fertilizers. The list of fertilizer manufacturing
companies is at annexure.
As
regards pesticides, the manufacturing in the Pesticide sector is deregulated
and pesticides are freely importable subject to fulfillment of the conditions
indicated in the current Exim policy. The Department of Chemicals and
Petrochemicals neither procures pesticides nor provides any financial support
for their procurement.
This information was given by the Minister of
State (Independent Charge) for Chemicals and Fertilisers,
Shri Srikant Kumar Jena in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.
