Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma chaired a meeting at the Chief Minister's Residence on 14 June 2026 and directed officials of the Agriculture and Cooperation Department of Rajasthan to maintain online records of fertilizer use and crack down on black-marketing and illegal storage of agricultural inputs.

Context

At the meeting, CM Bhajanlal Sharma issued two broad sets of directives. The first concerned chemical fertilizers: he ordered that an online record be maintained to monitor balanced usage, and that kalabaazari aur avaidh bhandaran (black-marketing and illegal stockpiling) be met with strict action. The second set focused on natural and organic farming: agriculture supervisors are to be trained so they can motivate farmers to adopt these practices.

The Chief Minister also directed that soil-test-based fertilizer application be actively promoted across the state, tying fertilizer recommendations to scientific assessment of soil health rather than blanket usage.

Policy Backdrop

The directives align with two long-standing national schemes. The Soil Health Card scheme, launched in 2015, was designed precisely to shift farmers toward soil-test-based, balanced fertilizer application — reducing both over-use and input costs. The Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana, also rolled out from 2015, supports organic farming clusters across states including Rajasthan.

Across India, states have increasingly deployed twin strategies: regulatory enforcement to prevent diversion of subsidised fertilizers, and extension outreach to build farmer capacity for natural inputs. Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat have implemented comparable regulatory-plus-extension frameworks in recent years.

Stakeholders and Impact

The most direct beneficiaries of the directives are Rajasthan's farmers, who face both the risk of fertilizer shortages driven by black-marketing and the long-term cost of soil degradation from unbalanced chemical use. An online inventory system, if implemented effectively, would make it harder for middlemen to divert subsidised stock.

Agriculture supervisors — the frontline extension workforce — are central to the natural-farming push. Their training will determine how widely soil-health and organic-practice messages reach farm households, particularly ahead of the 2026 Kharif season.

What's Next

The Agriculture and Cooperation Department is expected to operationalise the online fertilizer record system and design training modules for supervisors in the weeks ahead. Progress on both fronts will be a key indicator of whether the state can translate the Chief Minister's directives into measurable change at the district level.

The broader test will be whether stricter enforcement curbs fertilizer diversion while the extension drive meaningfully shifts farmer behaviour toward natural and organic methods — outcomes that will become visible as the Kharif 2026 sowing season unfolds under the hashtag campaign #AapnoAgraaniRajasthan ('Our Leading Rajasthan').