An acute shortage of fertilisers in rural India threatens to disrupt the winter planting season, stoking unrest among the country’s politically important farmers ahead of a series of crucial state elections next year, the Financial Times reported.
Desperate farmers in central and north India have thronged state-run shops selling subsidised fertilisers and clashed with police. In some states, officers have taken to distributing bags of fertilisers at police stations to keep law and order.
Farmers, frustrated at having to sit in snaking queues for days, have held sit-in protests to demand delivery of the fertilisers. They contain basic nutrients such as diammonium phosphate, crucial to growing wheat, mustard and other crops.
Read the full report: Financial Times
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