Overview

• Telangana and Karnataka report acute urea shortfalls with farmers queuing for days and receiving only one or two 45-kg bags per Aadhaar card.
• State leaders including T. Harish Rao, N. Cheluvarayaswamy and D. Sridhar Babu accuse the Centre of under-supplying or diverting their fertiliser allocations.
• Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan convened a videoconference, ordering states to form monitoring committees and enforce stricter certification of bio-stimulants.
• Central ministers maintain that overall urea supplies exceed last year’s volumes and attribute current rationing to stronger monsoon-driven demand and local diversion.
• Chouhan assured Karnataka of additional shipments to cover remaining allocations, yet rationing and reports of black-market sales continue to hamper access.