Shares of seven fertilizer firms rose 0.12% to 3.84% at 15:00 IST on BSE on media reports that the government is considering removing price controls on urea and scrapping an import duty of 5%.
Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers (up 3.84%), Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals (up 1.26%), Basant Agro Tech (India) (up 1.19%), Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals (up 0.39%), Zuari Agro Chemicals (up 0.58%), Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals (up 0.12%), and Coromandel International (up 0.26%) edged higher.
Meanwhile, the S&P BSE Sensex was up 140.14 points or 0.5% at 28,262.03.
According to reports, the government is planning to decontrol the maximum retail price (MRP) of urea which is currently fixed at Rs 5,360 ($87) a tonne. The government could also raise the MRP by about 20% annually for the next three years, reports suggested.
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