Centre proposes law to control distribution, price, quality of fertilisers

New Delhi: The Centre has proposed a law that empowers it to fix the maximum selling price of fertilisers and control its quality as well as distribution. The Department of Fertilizers has sought comments from all stakeholders on the draft Integrated Plant Nutrition Management Bill, 2022, by February 26. It also seeks to establish an ‘Integrated Plant Nutrition Management Authority of India’. “It is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that the Union should take under its control the distribution, price and quality of standards of fertilisers,” said the draft document posted on the department’s website. The proposed law is aimed at promoting the development and sustainable use of balanced fertilisers, including bio-fertilisers, bio-stimulates, nano-fertilisers and organic fertilisers. (PTI)