Overview

• Mohan Yadav instructed district-in-charge ministers during a July 22 cabinet meeting to assess ground conditions and meet farmers amid critical urea and DAP shortfalls.
• State officials have registered 30 FIRs, cancelled 56 licences, suspended 70 and banned 188 dealers in a crackdown on fertilizer black marketing and illegal storage.
• District administrations are compiling real-time availability data and publicizing fertilizer rake schedules to streamline distribution across high-demand areas.
• Surprise inspections at cooperative outlets, PACS centres and private sale points aim to prevent diversion of subsidized urea into industrial and non-agricultural uses.
• Following a highway blockade by Sagar farmers on July 21, the government is weighing home delivery of fertilizers and promoting nano urea to ease peak-season supply pressures.