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Farmers will get fertilisers at the rate of 1350 rupees in rabi season as usual. The Indian government has also announced a grant of 22303 crore rupees for this. Actually, this information was given by the central minister of India, Anurag Thakur in a cabinet meeting to the media. With the sowing of rabi crops, it is a big challenge for farmers to fulfil the needs of fertilisers. 

Farmers face different issues due to the increase in the rate of fertilisers. But, on this Dussehra, the Indian government has stopped the inflation on fertiliser prices as a gift to the farmers. Farmers will get fertilisers this rabi season at the usual rate of 1350 per bag.The Indian government has also announced a grant of 22303 crore rupees for this. This information was given by the central minister of India, Anurag Thakur in a cabinet meeting to the media. 

The grant of 22303 rupees 

The Indian government has issued a subsidy of 22303 crore rupees to control the price of fertilisers in this rabi season to provide sympathy to farmers. After this announcement from the Indian government, farmers will get the fertilisers this rabi season at the previous rate of 1350 rupees per bag. For your reference let us know that the Indian government has strictly said no to increase the price of fertilisers.

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What is the price right now 

In every season, some ups and downs are always seen in the prices of fertilisers. But, this rabi season the Indian government has gifted farmers with a big budget to maintain the balance in price of fertilisers. In a press conference, Cabinet minister Anurag Thakur said that in the upcoming season of rabi crops the base of grant will be nitrogen- 47.2 per kg, phosphorus- 20.42 rupees per kg, potash- 2.38 per kg, sulphur- 1.89 rupees per kg. Because of this rule of the government, farmers have been provided a grant of 22303 crore rupees.

What will be the price of each bag 

Farmers buy fertiliser according to each bag, and they also need  to pay for it on that basis. According to the cabinet minister, currently Ammonium phosphate (DAP) will be provided at previous rates that is 1350 rupees per bag. Along with this, nitrogen phosphorus and potassium (NPK) will be provided at a rate of 1470 per bag. According to the government, this step has been taken to provide farmers a big relief.

 Under the Agri Stack Scheme, digital survey of standing crops in 93 thousand measles in the district is to be done, which has been done of 13 thousand measles. This will facilitate easy compensation by the insurance company or the government for the crop damaged by the disaster. Through the digital survey, it will be known which crop the farmer has sown in his field.

This survey shows which crop the farmer has grown in his field. The records from the digital crop survey under the Agri Stack project will be safe online with the Agriculture Department and the government for real time survey of crops grown in the fields.

The Government is conducting surveys under the scheme

Compensation will be easily received by the insurance company or government for the crop damaged by the disaster. The government is conducting a survey under the Agri Stack scheme to accurately assess the production from sowing to production.

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Earlier, which crop has been sown in how much area in which district. The employees of the Agriculture and Revenue Department used to provide the data of the survey to the government in a manual manner, which was not completely corrected.

Accurate assessment of crop damage will be done

 Now the Digital Crop Survey being conducted under this scheme will be able to know which crop the farmer has sown in his field. The government and the insurance company will compensate the crop ruined by the disaster by accurately assessing the loss of the crop and easily compensating for the loss.

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First, how much crop has been sown in which area of which field in which district of the state? The employees of the Agriculture and Revenue Department used to record this in papers and provide data to the government, which was not completely correct. Now digital crop survey is being done in a state-of-the-art way to collect accurate data.