Lok Sabha Question No. 4631 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-28
Subject: Supply of Fertilizers in Odisha
Ministry: CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS
Asked by: Shri Ananta Nayak

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS

## DEPARTMENT OF FERTILIZERS

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4631 TO BE ANSWERED ON: 28.03.2025

## Supply of Fertilizers in Odisha

## 4631:  SHRI ANANTA NAYAK:

Will the Minister of CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS be pleased to state:

- (a) the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  ensure  supply  of  chemical  and organic fertilizers to farmers across the country and their impact in Odisha;
- (b) the schemes implemented by the Government to expand fertilizer factories, increase production and supply of fertilizers in Odisha;
- (c) whether  the  Government  is  implementing  any  special  policy  to  promote sustainable and environment friendly fertilizers in agriculture and if so, the benefit thereof to farmers;
- (d) whether  the  Government  is  taking  any  new  initiative  to  transfer  fertilizer subsidy directly to farmers accounts (DBT) and the extent to which farmers have benefitted from this so far; and
- (e) whether the Government is planning to set up new fertilizer production units in Odisha so as to benefit local farmers and promote employment?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS & FERTILIZERS

## (SMT. ANUPRIYA PATEL)

- (a):      The  following steps are taken by the Government every season to meet the adequate and timely requirement of fertilizers viz. Urea, DAP, MOP and NPKS in all the  States,  including  the  State  of  Odisha.  In  case  of  organic  fertilizers,  the Government  of  India  does  not  assess  the  requirement  of  organic  fertilizers. However, the Government of India promotes the use of organic fertilizers through its schemes.
- i. Before the commencement  of  each cropping season, Department of Agriculture  and  Farmers  Welfare  (DA&FW),  in  consultation  with  all  the  State Governments, assesses the state-wise & month-wise requirement of fertilizers.
- ii. On  the  basis  of  requirement  projected,  Department  of  Fertilizers  allocates adequate  quantities  of  fertilizers  to  States  by  issuing  monthly  supply  plan  and continuously monitors the availability.
- iii. The movement of all major subsidized fertilizers is monitored throughout the country  by  an  on-line  web  based  monitoring  system  called  integrated  Fertilizer Monitoring System (iFMS);

iv. Regular Weekly Video Conference is conducted jointly by DA&FW and D/o Fertilizers  with  State  Agriculture  Officials  and  corrective  actions  are  taken  to dispatch fertilizers as indicated by the State Governments.

As  per  the information available on  the website  of Unified portal for Agricultural Statistics (Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare), the agriculture production in the State of Odisha has been ramped up from 90.73 Lakh Tonnes in 2022-23 to 94.32 Lakh Tonnes in 2023-24.

(b) : In order to increase Indigenous Urea production in the country, Government inter-alia  mandated  revival  of  Talchar  units  of  Fertilizer  Corporation  of  India  Ltd through Joint Venture Company of nominated PSUs for setting up new AmmoniaUrea plant of 12.7 Lakh Metric Tonne Per Annum (LMTPA) capacity. The plant is located  at  Talchar  in  Angul  district  of  Odisha.  At  present,  the  plant  is  under construction phase'. Further with respect to the production of P&K Fertilizers, based on the requests, the new manufacturing units or increase in manufacturing capacity of  existing  units  have  been  recognized/taken  on  record  under  the  NBS  subsidy scheme,  with  a  view  to  boost  manufacturing  and  make  country  self-reliant  in fertilizer production. The  information  regarding  demand,  availability  and  sales  of fertilizers in the State of Odisha in the years 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 (as on 26.03.2025) is placed at Annexure .

(c): Government is promoting organic farming in the country through the scheme of  Paramparagat  Krishi  Vikas  Yojana  (PKVY),  a  component  of  Pradhan  MantriRashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (PM-RKVY) including the State of Odisha. The PKVY scheme  provides  end-to-end  support  to  organic  farmers  i.e.  from  production  to processing,  certification  and  marketing  in  a  cluster  based  approach.  The  primary focus  of  the  scheme  is  to  form  organic  clusters  in  a  cluster  where  preference  is given to tribal and marginal farmers to help them to create a supply chain.

Under PKVY, States/UTs are provided financial assistance of Rs.31,500/ha over 3 years in the organic clusters out of which, Rs.15,000/ha is provided directly to farmers through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT)  for on-farm and off-farm organic inputs including organic fertilizers, Rs. 4,500/ha for marketing, packaging, branding, value addition etc., Rs. 3,000/ha for certification and  residue analysis  and Rs.9,000/ha for training and capacity building. One farmer can avail maximum 2 ha area under the scheme. Since 2015-16, under PKVY, total fund Rs.92.73 Cr has been released for 45800 ha area under organic farming involving 70026 farmers for the State of Odisha.

Moreover,  Government  has  approved  the  Market  Development  Assistance (MDA)  @  Rs.  1500/MT  to  promote  organic  fertilizers,  viz.,  Fermented  Organic Manure  (FOM)/  Liquid  Fermented  Organic  Manure  (LFOM)/  Phosphate  Rich Organic Manure (PROM) produced at plants under GOBARdhan scheme with total outlay of Rs. 1451.84 Crore (FY 2023-24 to 2025-26), which includes a corpus of Rs. 360 Crore for research gap funding, etc. These initiatives of the Government are expected  to  address  the  imbalanced  use  of  chemical  fertilizers  thereby  reducing overuse of chemical fertilizers.

(d): DBT system in Fertilizers entails 100% payment of subsidy to the Fertilizer companies on the basis of actual sales through Point of Sale (PoS) machines by the retailer to the beneficiary. The buyers identity is verified through Aadhar based authentication.

(e) : In order to increase Indigenous Urea production in the country, Government inter-alia  mandated  revival  of  Talchar  units  of  Fertilizer  Corporation  of  India  Ltd through Joint Venture Company of nominated PSUs for setting up new AmmoniaUrea plant of 12.7 Lakh Metric Tonne Per Annum (LMTPA) capacity. The plant is located  at  Talchar  in  Angul  district  of  Odisha.  At  present,  the  plant  is  under construction phase'. Further with respect to the production of P&K Fertilizers, based on the requests, the new manufacturing units or increase in manufacturing capacity of  existing  units  have  been  recognized/taken  on  record  under  the  NBS  subsidy scheme,  with  a  view  to  boost  manufacturing  and  make  country  self-reliant  in fertilizer production.

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## Annexure referred to in reply to part (b) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 4631 for answering on 28.03.2025

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| ODISHA                                                | ODISHA                                                | ODISHA                                                | ODISHA                                                | ODISHA                                                | ODISHA                                                | ODISHA                                                | ODISHA                                                | ODISHA                                                | ODISHA                                                | ODISHA                                                | ODISHA                                                | ODISHA                                                | ODISHA                                                |
| YEAR WISE DEMAND, AVAILABILITY & SALES OF FERTILIZERS | YEAR WISE DEMAND, AVAILABILITY & SALES OF FERTILIZERS | YEAR WISE DEMAND, AVAILABILITY & SALES OF FERTILIZERS | YEAR WISE DEMAND, AVAILABILITY & SALES OF FERTILIZERS | YEAR WISE DEMAND, AVAILABILITY & SALES OF FERTILIZERS | YEAR WISE DEMAND, AVAILABILITY & SALES OF FERTILIZERS | YEAR WISE DEMAND, AVAILABILITY & SALES OF FERTILIZERS | YEAR WISE DEMAND, AVAILABILITY & SALES OF FERTILIZERS | YEAR WISE DEMAND, AVAILABILITY & SALES OF FERTILIZERS | YEAR WISE DEMAND, AVAILABILITY & SALES OF FERTILIZERS | YEAR WISE DEMAND, AVAILABILITY & SALES OF FERTILIZERS | YEAR WISE DEMAND, AVAILABILITY & SALES OF FERTILIZERS | YEAR WISE DEMAND, AVAILABILITY & SALES OF FERTILIZERS | YEAR WISE DEMAND, AVAILABILITY & SALES OF FERTILIZERS |
|                                                       |                                                       |                                                       |                                                       |                                                       | DAP                                                   | DAP                                                   | DAP                                                   |                                                       |                                                       |                                                       | fig. in LMT NPKS                                      | fig. in LMT NPKS                                      | fig. in LMT NPKS                                      |
| S. No                                                 | YEAR                                                  | DEMAND                                                | AVAILABI- LITY                                        | SALES                                                 | DEMAND                                                | AVAILA BI-LITY                                        | SALES                                                 | DEMAND                                                | AVAILABI- LITY                                        | SALES                                                 | DEMAND                                                | AVAILABI- LITY                                        | SALES                                                 |
| 1                                                     | 2024-25 (TILL 26.03.25)                               | 5.97                                                  | 8.02                                                  | 6.56                                                  | 2.84                                                  | 2.82                                                  | 2.54                                                  | 0.84                                                  | 1.11                                                  | 0.76                                                  | 2.73                                                  | 4.03                                                  | 3.23                                                  |
| 2                                                     | 2023-24                                               | 5.46                                                  | 7.70                                                  | 5.84                                                  | 2.33                                                  | 3.12                                                  | 2.74                                                  | 1.03                                                  | 0.93                                                  | 0.66                                                  | 2.80                                                  | 3.16                                                  | 2.42                                                  |
| 3                                                     | 2022-23                                               | 5.84                                                  | 7.08                                                  | 5.60                                                  | 2.69                                                  | 2.55                                                  | 1.94                                                  | 1.35                                                  | 0.84                                                  | 0.61                                                  | 3.05                                                  | 3.26                                                  | 2.63                                                  |

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