Overview

• YSRCP called on the state government to immediately secure additional central allocations to ease what it describes as a severe urea shortfall.
• Party leader M.V.S. Nagi Reddy said farmers are lining up at Primary Agriculture Credit Societies and Rythu Bharosa Kendras, disputing the chief minister’s claim that shortage reports are false.
• He alleged private dealers are creating an artificial scarcity by forcing purchases of nano urea and pesticides to access subsidised urea.
• Reddy attributed a demand surge to a shift of about two lakh hectares into paddy and other food grains along with heavy rains boosting needs for maize, cotton and vegetables.
• He also said a promised 70:30 distribution split favoring PACS over RBKs has not been implemented, adding to supply bottlenecks.