नैनो यूरिया तक पहुँच का विस्तार — भारतीय खेतों में मृदा उर्वरता बनाए रखने के लिए हमने नैनो यूरिया का उपयोग शुरू किया है। हम नैनो यूरिया तक पहुँच का और विस्तार करेंगे तथा उसे अपनाने को प्रोत्साहित करेंगे।

The imported version of this claim bundled nano urea with One Nation One Fertiliser. The manifesto keeps them apart, and its nano urea commitment is short: "We have started using nano-urea to ensure continued soil fertility in Indian farmlands. We will further expand access to and encourage adoption of Nano Urea."

Access is expanding. In Rajasthan, the one state for which we found figures, 1,03,73,705 bottles of nano urea and 28,00,128 bottles of nano DAP had been sold under the Fertilizer Control Order between launch and 31 March 2026. IFFCO ran a nationwide promotion campaign under which it conducted "660 Nano Urea Plus field trials across 100 districts in 21 States… covering all 15 agro-climatic zones of the country". Krishi Vigyan Kendras, state agriculture departments, drone demonstrations and mobile vans are all in the ministry's account of how adoption is being encouraged. On the promise as written, this is real movement.

Two things qualify it.

The first is how far "access" has actually reached. The government's own retail network for fertiliser is the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samriddhi Kendra. In Rajasthan, "Out of 9526 Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samriddhi Kendras… 1977 PMKSKs are regularly stocking and selling Nano Urea and Nano DAP as on 1st April 2026." Four in five of the state's own outlets do not regularly carry the product the manifesto promised to expand access to. That is a fact about supply, or about demand, or both — the answer does not say which — but it is the number that bears directly on the word "access".

The second is the sequence of the evidence. Nano urea is a novel product: a foliar spray of nitrogen nanoparticles proposed as a partial substitute for granular urea. Whether it can replace conventional urea, and by how much, is a live agronomic question, and India's agricultural scientists have not settled it.

The dates in the ministry's answer are worth reading in order. The Department of Fertilizers signed an MoU with the National Productivity Council on 5 March 2024 — five weeks before this manifesto — to study "Evaluating Efficacy, Utility and Impact of Nano Urea in comparison to Conventional Urea". A Phase-II study, to evaluate "the extent of replacement of Conventional Urea by Nano Urea", was signed on 14 November 2025. An ICAR network project on nano urea's effect on crop productivity and nitrogen use efficiency was signed on 3 November 2025 and runs for five years. A separate ICAR project on soil health and nutrient uptake, worth ₹1.60 crore, runs 2024-26.

So the promotion came first and the evaluation is running behind it, with the definitive multi-zone trial not due to report until around 2030. What the ministry can report today is preliminary and carefully hedged: "As per the NPC assessment based on the farmers feedback, crop yield in the tobacoo (Gujarat), Coriander (Madhya Pradesh), Chilli (Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh), Garlic (Madhya Pradesh) improved as a result of mixed use of Nano Urea and Conventional Urea." Farmer feedback on mixed use of both products is not a measurement of nano urea's effect, and the ministry does not present it as one.

Partly delivered, and recorded as lacking context: the distribution effort is genuine and mid-course, and a promise made on the premise that nano urea "ensure[s] continued soil fertility" is being tested by the government's own studies at the same time as it is being scaled.