{"id":76925,"date":"2026-04-04T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/04\/india-fuel-crisis-fertiliser-shortage-farming"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:00:06","slug":"india-is-going-to-face-a-food-crisis-farmers-panic-over-fertiliser-shortages-amid-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76925","title":{"rendered":"\u2018India is going to face a food crisis\u2019: Farmers panic over fertiliser shortages amid Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ripple effects of oil and fertiliser shortage felt by farmers in India<strong> <\/strong>and Sri Lanka despite governments saying there is enough stock to go round<\/p>\n<p>Gurvinder Singh never thought the war in Iran would touch his quiet corner of Punjab.<\/p>\n<p>Yet looking out over his smallholding, where he alternates between wheat and rice crops in the state known as India\u2019s breadbasket, the 52-year-old farmer can barely think of anything else. His anxiety over a conflict playing out thousands of miles away is crippling as he fears what will come of this season\u2019s rice crop.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/04\/india-fuel-crisis-fertiliser-shortage-farming\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ripple effects of oil and fertiliser shortage felt by farmers in India and Sri Lanka despite governments saying there is enough stock to go roundGurvinder Singh never thought the war in Iran would touch his quiet corner of Punjab.Yet looking out over h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[653,311,1149,62,449,79,61,674,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming","category-food","category-food-security","category-india","category-oil","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76926,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76925\/revisions\/76926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}