{"id":410052,"date":"2021-04-09T10:08:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T04:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=410052"},"modified":"2021-04-09T10:12:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T04:42:34","slug":"after-diesel-fertilisers-to-take-toll-on-farmers-iffco-hikes-prices-by-45-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/after-diesel-fertilisers-to-take-toll-on-farmers-iffco-hikes-prices-by-45-58\/","title":{"rendered":"After diesel, fertilisers to take toll on farmers; IFFCO hikes prices by 45-58%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of Assembly elections in West Bengal and ongoing protests against the Centre\u2019s farm laws, the country\u2019s largest fertiliser seller \u2013 Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO) \u2013 has steeply raised prices of nutrients.<\/p>\n<p>A 50-kg bag of di-ammonium phosphate (DAP), the most widely consumed fertiliser in India after urea, will cost farmers Rs 1,900, more than 58 per cent higher than the existing rate of Rs 1,200\/bag.<\/p>\n<p>IFFCO has also significantly increased the maximum retail prices of other popular complex fertilisers with different NPKS (nitrogen, phosphorus, potash and sulphur) proportions. These include 10:26:26 (from Rs 1,175 to Rs 1,775\/bag), 12:32:16 (from Rs 1,185 to 1,800\/bag) and 20:20:0:13 (from Rs 925 to 1,350\/bag). The new prices are effective from April 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of Assembly elections in West Bengal and ongoing protests against the Centre\u2019s farm laws, the country\u2019s largest fertiliser seller \u2013 Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO) \u2013 has steeply raised prices of nutrients. A 50-kg bag of di-ammonium phosphate (DAP), the most widely consumed fertiliser in India after urea, will cost farmers Rs 1,900, more than 58 per cent higher than the existing rate of Rs 1,200\/bag. IFFCO has also significantly increased the maximum retail prices of other popular complex fertilisers with different NPKS (nitrogen, phosphorus, potash and sulphur) proportions. These include 10:26:26 (from Rs 1,175 to Rs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}