Fertiliser consumption set to fat! for second year running

摘要

Even as India is set to harvest a bumper agricultural crop in 2013-14 — record production of rice, wheat, maize, pulses, oilseeds and cotton - consumption of fertilisers is seen to decline for a second successive year, according to an analysis done by a leasing business newspaper. Total fertiliser consumption in the country rose every year from 2002-03 to 2011-12, when it peaked at 59-mn tonnes (mt). But last year, it fell below 54-mt. Based on the trend of sales by companies during April-January period, consumption could dip further in 2013-14.