{"id":3807,"date":"2023-03-06T02:32:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T21:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2025-03-26T19:32:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:02:43","slug":"what-is-the-nano-liquid-dap-di-ammonium-phosphate-fertilizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-nano-liquid-dap-di-ammonium-phosphate-fertilizer\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the nano liquid DAP (di-ammonium phosphate) fertilizer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About nano liquid DAP fertilizer:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>concentrated phosphate-based fertilizer<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>provides phosphorous nutrition<\/strong> throughout the crop growth and development cycle.<\/li>\n<li>Nano-DAP is jointly <strong>manufactured by Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO<\/strong>) in <strong>association with a private player Coromandel.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Nano-DAP will be <strong>sold at Rs 600 per bottle of 500 ml<\/strong>. <strong>One bottle<\/strong> will be <strong>equivalent to one bag of DAP<\/strong>, which currently costs Rs 1,350.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Expected benefits:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>DAP is the second most consumed fertilizer<\/strong> in the country after urea.<\/li>\n<li>Out of the estimated annual consumption of around 10-12.5 million tonnes, local production is around 4-5 million tonnes, while the rest has to be imported.<\/li>\n<li>Nano-DAP <strong>will help to bring down India\u2019s fertilizer import bill.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also expected to contribute to <strong>bringing down the annual subsidy on non-urea fertilizers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is Fertilizer Control Order(FCO)?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It has been <strong>issued under the Essential Commodities Act 1955.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>administered by Department of Agriculture Cooperation<\/strong>, Govt. of India.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>FCO lays down,<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>what substances qualify for use as fertilizers<\/strong> in the soil;<\/li>\n<li><strong>product-wise specifications<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>methods for sampling and analysis<\/strong> of fertilizers;<\/li>\n<li>the <strong>procedure for obtaining a license<\/strong>\/registration as a manufacturer\/dealer in fertilizers;<\/li>\n<li>conditions to be fulfilled for trading thereof;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is Nano Urea?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a nanotechnology-based revolutionary Agri-input that provides nitrogen to plants.It is developed and patented by the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/economy-policy\/nano-dap-included-in-fertilizer-control-order-paving-way-for-early-release-123030400256_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Nano-DAP included in Fertilizer Control Order paving way for early release<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nano liquid DAP fertilizer is a concentrated phosphate-based fertilizer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}