Fertiliser use on India' unirrigated areas: a perspective based on fast record and future needs

Abstract

The paper elaborates four propositions: (1) There is a clear need for sustained rapid growth of fertilizer use in India agriculture (2) This depends,now more than ever before on accelerated growth infertiliser use on unirrigated areas (3) There is already a potential to generate acceleration in fertilizer use on unirrigated areas, and this will increase with technological improvements (4) Successful exploitation of this potential depends on decisive polities and coordinated efforts in three major directions: (a) generating growth in farmers' demand for fertilizer in unirrigated areas, (b creating adequate and efficient fertilizer delivery systems in regions with low irrigations, and (c) keeping growth in aggregate supply of fertilizer ahead of growth in fertilizer demand under irrigated conditions.