Overview

• Farmers staged road blockades in Mahabubabad and Kothagudem after rationed one‑bag distributions left many without urea, with token disputes and a fingerprint system failure halting supply at a Yellandu warehouse.
• Nagarkurnool farmers alleged spurious or mislabelled fertiliser and black‑market sales, opening bags in public to show 28:28:0 labels filled with 20:20:0 product and citing prices rising to Rs 1,850 from the Rs 1,300 cap.
• In Suryapet only 2,300 tonnes were supplied against an August demand of 22,000 tonnes, and Nalgonda received 45,500 tonnes against a 70,000‑tonne requirement by September, pushing long queues that in some cases included schoolchildren.
• Telangana’s agriculture minister said 5.72 lakh tonnes were delivered against 8.30 lakh tonnes allocated to the state till August and noted a 78‑day RFCL shutdown causing a 62,000‑tonne shortfall, while stating the Centre promised 50,000 tonnes and 35,000 have arrived.
• Political pressure intensified as BRS led protests in Telangana and YSRCP urged Andhra Pradesh to secure more supply, while the Centre cleared 10,800 tonnes for Andhra from Dhamra, earmarked 8,100 tonnes from Karaikal, and scheduled further shipments to Gangavaram and Kakinada in early September.