India’s fertilizer policies: implications for food security, environmental sustainability, and climate change

• Published in: Regional environmental change Vol. 25; no. 2; p. 63
• Main Authors: Sapkota, Tek B., Bijay-Singh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.06.2025; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: affordability; climate; Climate Change; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Crop yield; diammonium phosphate; Earth and Environmental Science; Economics; Environment; Environmental risk; environmental sustainability; Farmers; Fertilization; Fertilizers; Food production; Food security; GDP; Geography; Gross Domestic Product; India; Leaching; Nature Conservation; nitrates; Nitrous oxide; nutrient management; Nutrient status; Oceanography; Policies; Potassium; potassium fertilizers; Poverty; prices; Regional/Spatial Science; Review; rice; Rural poverty; socioeconomic status; Socioeconomics; soil; Soil nutrients; Subsidies; Urea; wheat; India; Fertilizer policies; Socio-economic impacts; Environmental impacts; Climate change; Balanced fertilization; Fertilizer subsidy

To ensure food security, the Government of India has implemented various policies since the 1950s to provide enough and affordable fertilizer for farmers. Based on quantitative data, this paper provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of how these policies influenced the fertilizer consumpti...