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NBS rates for rabi 2025-26: ₹37,952 crore

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Battle IAS current affairs title card: NBS rates for rabi 2025-26: ₹37,952 crore (GS3 · Agriculture, 5 January 2026)

What happened

  • NBS rates for rabi 2025-26 apply from 1 October 2025 to 31 March 2026, covering P&K fertilisers including DAP and NPKS; the tentative requirement is about ₹37,952 crore [PIB].

Background

  • P&K fertiliser production rose from 112.19 LMT in 2014 to 168.55 LMT in 2025 (till 30 December) [PIB].

Why it matters

  • NBS exists to push balanced use of nutrients. Read the subsidy bill and the output figures together.

How to use this in Mains

GS-III Agriculture: cropping, MSP, PDS, food processing, land reforms

  1. As per PIB (2026-01-05): NBS rates for rabi 2025-26 apply from 1 October 2025 to 31 March 2026, covering P&K fertilisers including DAP and NPKS; the tentative requirement is about ₹37,952 crore.
  2. NBS exists to push balanced use of nutrients. Read the subsidy bill and the output figures together.
Quotable data point

NBS rates for rabi 2025-26 apply from 1 October 2025 to 31 March 2026, covering P&K fertilisers including DAP and NPKS.

PIB: NBS rates Rabi 2025-26, 5 Jan 2026

Exam angle

UPSC

Prelims: NBS coverage. · Mains: fertiliser subsidy reform.

Practice MCQs

Original practice questions (not PYQs).

Practice · UPSC

Nutrient Based Subsidy covers

Answer (b) & explanation

PIB.

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Official source: PIB: NBS rates Rabi 2025-26, 5 Jan 2026

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