FERTILIZER & PESTICIDE Notes For Competitive Exam
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Note: Government is providing Rs 900 per bag subsidy on urea fertilizer; While on DAP Rs.1200 per 50 kg bag. (Govt. spends 80,000 crore on subsidies for chemical fertilizers).
- New Urea policy-2015: the government allowed the urea producers to produce up to 100% of production as Neem coated
- 100 % Neem Coated production of urea made mandatory on 2015.
- Nutrient Based Subsidy: scheme started in the Year 1 April, 2010.
- Where a fixed rate of subsidy is announced on nutrients. The NBS covers three macro nutrients (Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium) and one secondary nutrient (Sulphur).
Nutrient Based Subsidy Scheme:
| Nitrogen (Per kg Subsidy rate) | Phosphorus (Per kg Subsidy rate) | Potash (Per kg Subsidy rate) | Sulphur (Per kg Subsidy rate) |
| 18.78 | 45.32
(Subsidy on DAP hiked to 140%) |
10.11 | 2.374 |
(Source: Fertilizer Association of India (FAI):2019-20)
Pesticide consumption scenario (2019-20): v Total registered pesticides in India (2019-20) are 292
- Government of India banned 27 pesticides in May 2020 (Insecticides-12, Herbicides- 7, Fungicides- 8)
- Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee (CIB & RC)- To facilitate the registration of safe, efficacious and quality pesticides for domestic use and
- The major pesticides applications are found in Rice and Cotton crops (1st Paddy, 2nd Cotton)
- The top pesticide consumption states in India are Maharashtra (12,783 MT) and Uttar Pradesh (12, 217 MT) accounting to 40% of pesticide consumption in India (61,702 MT).
- The least pesticide consumption state in India is Goa (30 MT).
- The total consumption of bio-pesticides at the national level stood at 8,847 MT in 2019-20 (Maharashtra was the major consumer with 1,082 MT in 2019-20).
- The total number of Central Integrated Pest Management Centres (CIPMCs) across the country are (Source: cibrc.nic.in)
- Locust control operations have been done in 66 lakh ha area in 10 states (severe in Rajasthan and Gujarat)
- India became the first country in the world to use Drones for Locust control after finalizing the protocols and standard operating procedure.
- Locust Warning Organization (LWO) headquarter is located at Faridabad, Haryana
- According to a study published in Nature Geoscience 64% of the arable land is at risk due to pesticide
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