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Amid shortage fears, Centre forms team on fertiliser delivery -Zia Haq

-Hindustan Times

Additional railway rakes, or train wagons, were being made available to ship fertilisers on a priority basis and at short notice, an official said.

The Union government has formed a “crack team” to ensure priority movement of fertilisers to key food-bowl states as fears of shortage have triggered panic buying of crop nutrients, people familiar with the matter said.

For the first time, a hub-and-spoke model is being implemented to take supplies from nearly 50 factories and ports to about 1,000 railheads, backed by real time tracking, as farmers scramble for key crop nutrients. The hub-and-spoke model aims at central coordination and management of supplies from a single central point.

Officials are redirecting railway rakes, or wagons, to areas of shortage and are holding a series of meetings with fertiliser firms and their dealers to quicken shipments to Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, the people cited above said.

“We are sure there will be no crisis. The team is monitoring movement and dispatch of fertilisers and coordinating with port authorities and railways to ensure faster movement (of fertilisers),” an official in the fertiliser department said, requesting anonymity.

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