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BHUBANESWAR: Even because the State has a inventory of over one lakh tonne of urea, synthetic scarcity of the chemical soil nutrient has not solely jacked up the value to greater than double the subsidised price but additionally its non-availability has pressured farmers to purchase substandard fertiliser from open market.
The extra standard urea is promoting at Rs 420-500 per 50 kg bag towards its precise worth of Rs 268.23 fastened by the Centre.The State’s requirement of urea for the kharif season (from April to September) this 12 months was 4 lakh tonne. With a gap stability of 79,309 tonne, the Ministry of Chemical substances and Fertilisers had up to now provided 3,78,763 tonne. Of the overall availability of 4,58,072 tonne, provide of the fertiliser to farmers by means of level of sale (PoS) was 3,50,872 until September 15. There may be an unsold inventory of 1,07,200 tonne in numerous components of the State.
With monsoon gaining energy resulting from back-to-back low stress programs and the precise rainfall throughout the State is greater than regular, there may be surge in demand for urea which comes cheaper.“We’d like urea however the main agriculture cooperative societies (PACS) and authorities appointed sellers are telling they haven’t any inventory. Because the demand for urea is excessive they’ve joined palms and promoting it by means of personal merchants at increased worth,” mentioned Dilip Pradhan, a farmer of Bargarh district.
Related is the urea disaster in lots of coastal districts together with Cuttack, Puri and Ganjam.Expressing his anguish over black-marketing of urea, Samarendra Singh of Gop block of Puri district mentioned the callousness of the federal government to farmers plight is pathetic.
The State had projected its kharif requirement of Di-ammonium Phosphate (DAP) at two lakh tonne, advanced fertiliser (NPKS) 2.25 tonne and Muriate of Potash (MOP) at one lakh tonne. The whole availability of DAP was 1,49,582 tonne and the sale until September 15 was 1,18,291 tonne leaving of inventory of 31,291 tonne.
Equally, the State has a stay inventory of 70,119 tonne of NPKS, 33,000 tonne of MOP and 31,291 tonne of DAP after sale until mid September.There isn’t any demand for these three fertilisers as transplanting of paddy crop is over and medium and late length paddy crops are at tillering stage, mentioned an agronomist of the Agriculture division.
