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Fertiliser shortage looms as global prices skyrocket – 9 Aug 2021

Aug 09, 2021

A shortage of fertilisers is looming on the back of skyrocketing international prices whose effects, it is feared, may be felt during the coming rabi season ahead of the February-March Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Uttarakhand. The supply crunch is due to the overall bullish global agri-commodity markets, a “temporary suspension’ of exports by China and western economic sanctions against Belarus.

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