Overview
- Telangana farmers continue to wait in multi-day queues as cooperatives ration limited July urea allocations after the state secured just 3.07 lakh tonnes against a 5 lakh-tonne need and has formally requested additional domestic and imported supplies.
- Private traders are accused of hoarding subsidised urea and selling it on the open market for up to ₹450 per bag, forcing some farmers to pay nearly double the government rate.
- In Kurukshetra, Bhartiya Kisan Union members detained an agriculture officer and blocked the Hisar–Chandigarh highway after alleged misleading promises of fertilizer rakes failed to materialise.
- Uttar Pradesh officials’ denial of shortages preceded a video of police baton-charging protesting farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri, where distribution centres shut mid-day and local residents staged spontaneous blockades.
- The BJP has alleged that Telangana’s Congress-led government is stoking scarcity fears for electoral gain, while Union ministers and state officials trade conflicting accounts of supply adequacy and diversion.