The godown of the Agricultural Materials Institute at Kalaiya in Bara is full of subsidized fertilizers. But farmers have not been able to get fertilizer for winter crops. Because of this, the corn planted three months ago did not receive saprin as per time.

Farmers who planted winter corn after bringing in the paddy crop are now wandering for fertilizer . DAP and potash fertilizers are required for maize. 

The farmers went across the border and planted the seeds in October and November. Kamlesh Prasad Yadav, a farmer of Simrangaudh Municipality-8, said that due to the lack of fertilizers, the corn plants that should grow according to the time are not growing.

"The corn that was planted three months ago has not sprouted after receiving fertilizer", he said . The problem of other farmers is also the same. Fertilizer brought from India through illegal routes is expensive. Farmers say that they are forced to buy low-quality fertilizers in the market while looking for cheap ones. 

"We have to rely on the Indian market for fertilizer," said Kamlesh, "that too is expensive." Fertilizer from Nepali grant is not available as required.''

"In one hectare i.e. one and a half bigha, 90 kg of both these fertilizers are required," he said. Ashok Prasad Jaiswal of Simraungarh Municipality-11 Bhagwanpur has planted corn on one bigha of land. He says that even after three months, due to lack of fertilizer, the plants are not growing as required. He said, ``In 6 months, corn will be worth importing . Half of the time has passed, the height of the plant has not yet grown as much as it should.' One sack (45 kg) of Indian fertilizer costs up to 3,000. "Subsidized fertilizer from the Agricultural Materials Institute, due to the quota system, little comes to dealers, even small farmers do not get it." Everyone who has access gets it," he said.

The local level should send a recommendation to get subsidized fertilizer . Ravikumar Kesari, the head of the institute, said that even though letters were sent to the municipalities to take the fertilizer, the fertilizer did not reach the farmers. 

Fertilizer has been distributed to 246 cooperatives (sellers) of 16 municipalities in Baraka. "Correspondence has been sent to municipalities to take fertilizer, but no recommendation has been given to the dealer to take fertilizer according to the quota from any municipality," said Kesari, head of the institute. 

667 tons (13 thousand 340 sacks) of DAP and 400 sacks of potash fertilizer are stored in the current 'lot'. The government has procured fertilizers through tenders and provided them from Salt Trading and Agricultural Materials Institute. But since the municipality did not give the recommendation and did not get the subsidized fertilizer, the farmers are forced to bring expensive fertilizer from the Indian market and put it in the fields.