Overview

• The agriculture department has formally asked the Centre to release 80,000 tonnes from four imported vessels arriving by the end of August to plug the supply gap.
• Bhongir MP Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy filed an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha accusing the Centre of deliberately delaying urea deliveries and jeopardizing Kharif sowing.
• Farmers in Telangana are facing rationed fertilizer supplies, long queues at cooperatives and localized protests as crop cultivation continues.
• Officials attribute the deficit to a 78-day production halt at the RFCL Ramagundam plant and to several importers’ failure to deliver urea over the past two to three months.
• Union ministers from Telangana assert that allocations exceed state requirements, while state leaders vow further parliamentary action.