The retailer admitted to violating environmental regulations after illegally disposing of fertiliser, pesticides and bleach.
They also spoke about fertiliser and compared its ammonium nitrate content with sports injury cold packs.
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The government hands out free starter-packs of seeds and fertiliser, intended for the poorest farmers.
Shares of Mosaic, a maker of fertiliser, have been swept by one acquisition rumour after another.
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Entrepreneurs are brimming with schemes to turn rubbish into electricity or fuel or fertiliser.
Fertiliser, for example, would arrive late, and late fertiliser is as good as no fertiliser.
The real challenge will come when cash transfers will be made for food and fertiliser.
More reliable income, in turn, allows farmers to invest more in seeds, fertiliser and machinery.
The energy inputs required to produce the crops included nitrogen fertiliser, herbicides, diesel and seed production.
The report says more careful application of fertiliser will benefit farmers by saving money.
It will benefit the climate by avoiding the energy used to create the fertiliser.
Instead, this gas will be turned into fertiliser, or liquefied and sold as fuel.
Higher energy prices have also made a difference as fertiliser and other input costs have risen.
Half a tonne of a fertiliser that can be used to make bombs was also seized.
In addition, the South is giving the North 100, 000 tonnes of fertiliser this year.
And on his return, in November 2003, he helped to purchase the 600kg of ammonium nitrate fertiliser.
"Food is a complex issue and fertiliser is more complex than food, " Finance Minister P Chidambaram concedes.
The charges against him centre on the allegedly fraudulent part-privatisation in 1994 of Apatit, a fertiliser company.
The government remains the largest buyer, and about the only supplier of seeds, fertiliser and so on.
Clever new technologies to turn it into fertiliser or chemicals or fuel are being developed all the time.
Organic methods, which rely on crop rotation, manure and compost in place of fertiliser, are far less intensive.
Mr Zimba frets that he cannot afford enough seeds or fertiliser to make full use of his land.
In many places, irrigation and fertiliser subsidies, government marketing and other schemes implicitly or explicitly favour cereal farmers.
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The prices of fertilisers are recovering more slowly than those of other commodities, making fertiliser companies relatively cheap.
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For his rockets (their longest range so far is about a kilometre) he uses propellants, also from fertiliser.
Diesel prices went up this month, but the fuel remains massively subsidised, along with kerosene, fertiliser and food.
The pigeon houses riddling the rock faces, traditionally used to collect the birds' droppings for use as fertiliser, mostly stand empty.
It invests with Stakhanovite zeal in impressive but uneconomical facilities, such as oil refineries, steel mills and fertiliser plants.
They are also campaigning against cuts in government food and fertiliser subsidies, which they argue are harming the poor.
It gobbles up gas as feedstock to make chemicals such as methanol and ammonia, a vital ingredient of fertiliser.
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