Abstract: This paper analyzes the trends and patterns in consumption, production, and distribution of fertilizer nutrients in India, and provides the background information for the mathematical programming model of the Indian Fertilizer Sector. The consumption and production of chemical fertilizers have increased at an annual compound rate of, respectively, 17.9% and 17.6% during the last 25 years. Approximately one-third of the consumption requirements are met through imports. As the growing need for foodgrains in India will continue to accelerate the demand for chemical fertilizers, the future planning of the fertilizer sector should obviously concentrate on devising an optimum combination of domestic production and imports, so that future supplies of fertilizer nutrients could be made available to the farmers at a minimum cost. Various issues related to optimum size, location, product-mix, and distribution patterns leading to minimum farm-gate price of chemical fertilizers are being explored by the programming methods, and will be reported in another paper in this series.
Publication Year: 1979
Publication Date: 1979-06-30
Language: en
Type: book
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