The standing committee report on ‘Nano-Fertilisers for Sustainable Crop production and Maintaining Health‘ has raised concerns over the excessive use of conventional urea and continuous increase in itsimport of ureaover the years, which rose from 5.5 million tonnes (MTs) in 2016-17 to 9.8 MTs in 2020-21, the panel has said the subsidy burden on account of urea import constitutes 26% of the overall urea subsidy paid in a year by the government.
The panel has also recommended the government to put in place a system to sell one bottle of nano urea and four bags of urea to farmers instead of five bags of the conventional soil nutrient. It has recommended the government for more use of drones for spraying nano urea.