Lok Sabha Question No. 3339 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-08-08
Subject: Hoarding of Fertliser
Ministry: CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS
Asked by: Dr. Prashant Yadaorao Padole, Shri Ananta Nayak, Shri Anup Sanjay Dhotre

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS DEPARTMENT OF FERTILIZERS

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3339 TO BE ANSWERED ON: 08.08.2025

## Hoarding of Fertliser

3339:      SHRI ANANTA NAYAK:

SHRI ANUP SANJAY DHOTRE:

DR. PRASHANT YADAORAO PADOLE:

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

- (a) the various steps taken by the Government to monitor and prevent hoarding or black marketing of fertilizers during the Kharif season;
- (b) whether  any  incidents  of  hoarding/black  marketing  have  come  to  the  notice  of  the Government and if so, the details of the action taken thereon; and
- (c) the specific measures proposed to be implemented to curb these issues in future?

## ANSWER

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

## ( SMT. ANUPRIYA PATEL )

- (a) to (c) Fertilizer is declared as an essential commodity and is notified under Fertilizer Control Order, 1985 and Fertilizer (Movement Control) Order, 1973. State governments are adequately empowered under FCO to stop black marketing/ hoarding of fertilizers and to  take  punitive  action  against  any  person/fertilizer  company  involved  in  black marketing/hoarding of fertilizers by violating the provisions of Essential Commodities Act,  1955  and  Fertilizer  Control  Order  1985  (FCO).    Accordingly,  as  per  the information received from the State governments, the details regarding number of cases of black marketing/hoarding of fertilizers and action taken against them by the States during the ongoing Kharif 2025 season i.e. from 01.04.2025 to 01.08.205 is placed at Annexure .

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ANNEXURE

| States           |        | BlackMarketing          | BlackMarketing                      | BlackMarketing   | Hoarding               | Hoarding                             | Hoarding       | No. of Convictions   |
|------------------|--------|-------------------------|-------------------------------------|------------------|------------------------|--------------------------------------|----------------|----------------------|
| States           |        | Showcause notice issued | No. of licenses cancelled/suspended | FIR registered   | Showcause noticeissued | No. of licenses cancelled/su spended | FIR registered | No. of Convictions   |
| AndhraPradesh    | 577    | 1                       | 1                                   | 0                | 1                      | 1                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| ArunachalPradesh | 0      | 0                       | 0                                   | 0                | 0                      | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Assam            | 1681   | 12                      | 2                                   | 0                | 28                     | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Bihar            | 7176   | 712                     | 314                                 | 18               | 0                      | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Chhattisgarh     | 3661   | 264                     | 3                                   | 3                | 29                     | 1                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Dadar&Nagar      | 0      | 0                       | 0                                   | 0                | 0                      | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Delhi            | 99     | 0                       | 0                                   | 1                | 0                      | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Goa              | 602    | 544                     | 180                                 | 6                | 10                     | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Gujarat          | 4566   | 13                      | 0                                   | 1                | 0                      | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Haryana          | 4133   | 47                      | 3                                   | 1                | 16                     | 18                                   | 1              | NIL                  |
| HimachalPradesh  | 0      | 0                       | 0                                   | 0                | 0                      | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Jammu & Kashmir  | 1568   | 22                      | 1                                   | 0                | 14                     | 1                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Jharkhand        | 352    | 3                       | 0                                   | 0                | 5                      | 4                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Karnataka        | 3538   | 150                     | 10                                  | 0                | 117                    | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Kerala           | 323    | 0                       | 0                                   | 0                | 0                      | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Madhya Pradesh   | 276    | 0                       | 0                                   | 35               | 0                      | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Maharashtra      | 26870  | 15                      | 0                                   | 15               | 0                      | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Manipur          | 3      | 0                       | 0                                   | 0                | 0                      | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Meghalaya        | 169    | 0                       | 0                                   | 0                | 0                      | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Mizoram          | 11     | 0                       | 0                                   | 0                | 0                      | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Nagaland         | 64     | 14                      | 0                                   | 14               | 0                      | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Odisha           | 3622   | 0                       | 0                                   | 0                | 0                      | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Puducherry       | 10     | 0                       | 0                                   | 0                | 0                      | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Punjab           | 2323   | 2                       | 0                                   | 0                | 5                      | 0                                    | 1              | NIL                  |
| Rajasthan        | 5828   | 0                       | 0                                   | 0                | 0                      | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Tamilnadu        | 10837  | 13                      | 0                                   | 1                | 0                      | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Telangana        | 47518  | 0                       | 0                                   | 1                | 2                      | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| Tripura          | 304    | 0                       | 0                                   | 0                | 0                      | 0                                    | 0              | NIL                  |
| UttarPradesh     | 16193  | 999                     | 2181                                | 44               | 164                    | 37                                   | 3              | 3                    |
| Uttarakhand      | 158    | 0                       | 0                                   | 0                |                        |                                      | 0              | NIL                  |
| WestBengal       | 15666  | 0                       |                                     |                  | 0                      | 0                                    |                | NIL                  |
| Total            | 158128 | 2811                    | 0 2695                              | 0 140            | 0 391                  | 0 62                                 | 0 5            | 3                    |

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