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Uttar Pradesh
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Reporting from earlier editions of The Agrotech Daily. Figures, prices and policies may have changed since.
- Inputs & crop science, IndiaVanishing DAP from the markets increases the plight of the farmersDAP is scarce ahead of rabi sowing as global prices have surged, with imported DAP at $675 to $680 a tonne, despite a higher subsidy approved on October 12.
- Markets, IndiaPotato prices at an all-time low of Rs 5-6/kg in both producing and consuming areasA good rabi harvest has pushed potato prices in India to Rs 5-6 a kg, with wholesale rates in 25 key producing areas 50% lower on March 20 than a year earlier.
- Policy & trade, Uttar PradeshUP government needs to balance the investment between the common expenditure and budget allotmentUttar Pradesh's ₹5.50 lakh crore budget for 2021-22 leaves little room for welfare and development spending, as salaries, pensions and debt servicing take most revenue.
- Markets, IndiaSkyrocketing potato prices likely to settle down next monthWholesale potato prices may reach Rs 40 a kg by Diwali and ease only when Uttar Pradesh's new crop arrives in early December, according to the UP cold storage association.
- Policy & trade, Uttar PradeshAfter nine long years, farmers get their residential plots in NoidaNoida authority has allotted 644 residential plots by lucky draw to farmers whose land was acquired before 1997, nine years after the scheme was launched in 2011.