If sales trends hold for the next couple of days, then the current fiscal year will mark the second consecutive year of reduction in urea sales, a first in at least a decade. Ramanjaneyulu, executive director at Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, agrees that neem coating has increased urea usage efficiency. But he also attributes the downtrend in urea sales to organic farming and its growing prevalence in high fertilizer usage states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Jhawar of Investec Capital says the share of organic farming in India is quite low at present. Even the most developed countries have less than 10% of their total agriculture land under organic farming.

Source: Mint March 29, 2018 03:11 UTC