Most people are watching oil. Very few are watching urea.
A gas shock in the Gulf can reach an Indian kitchen. The route runs through a fertiliser most of us never think about.

No case study matches that yet.
What happens inside a bank between a repo rate change and the two rates you actually see.
School rationalisation, read through enrolment data and the budget lines behind it.
How FCNR deposits travel from an overseas account to the liquidity in India's banks.
Urea, the fertiliser behind the story
India, the largest buyer
Gas becomes ammonia
A third of traded urea
Stocks at record highs
Food inflation creeps up
Who pays first
Plants on 70% of gas
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