Cost advantages

Nano-fertilisers will reduce subsidy outgo

After the success of nano-urea, the nano version of DAP (di-ammonium phosphate), the second-most consumed fertiliser, has now cleared the bio-safety and toxicity trials, paving the way for its formal approval for field use from the next kharif season. These innovative and indigenously developed liquid fertilisers can prove a game-changer by reducing the dependence on imports and government subsidies for essential plant nutrients. In fact, the country might even look forward to becoming, more or less, self-sufficient in fertilisers over the next few years when the nano varieties of more fertilisers, now under development, become available for commercial use. That