India’s fertilizer policy needs an end-to-end rethink: What we have today is something of a travesty
Yet, this huge subsidy has increasingly been going waste. Nutrient Use Efficiency, which measures how much of the applied fertilizer—not of the total sold at subsidized rates, a portion of which gets diverted for resale at higher prices—is actually absorbed and used by crops has dropped to below 35% for nitrogen-rich urea (N), 20% for phosphorous (P) and a range of 50-80% for potassium (K).
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