Fertilizer availability is influenced by many factors like demand-supply balance in domestic market,favourable government policies,easy access to raw material/feed stock,international prices supply demand balance,future market prospects,preference for fertilizer grades by farmers,etc.Demand of fertilizer will continue to increase with increasing demand of food.Supply of fertilizers cannot be increased very quickly under short-term;it requires long-term planning and capacity addition based on requirement levels in the country.Import is aiding in supply of fertilizers but international market is not very stable especially in terms of prices.Prices of fertilizers in international market are very volatile which poses serious issues in timely import and availability of fertilizers.Fertilizer being bulky material need advance planning and arrangement of logistics for regular dispatches and movement across the country.Improved logistic arrangement would ensure better availability of fertilizers.Forecasting techniques can help in arriving at requirement of fertilizers for different areas and crops more accurately.Advance stocking scheme should be implemented throughout the country.Policy initiatives to bring urea under NBS,incentives for high use efficiency fertilizers will rationalize demand whereas systematic capacity addition will ease pressure on supply of fertilizers in the country.
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