In Kavre, 22,000 to 25,000 tons of chemical fertilizers are required, but only 5,500 tons are available according to the quota system
Pavitra Thapa of Panauti Municipality-5 Dhalmale has paddy planting paddy right now. Despite all the preparations, she started planting late because she did not get the required amount of chemical fertilizers. "What we get is only 5 kg of urea fertilizer, where can we get that easily? We can get it by standing in line for hours. One bag of fertilizer is needed to grow one crop," she said.
Now she has started planting after asking the neighbor for fertilizer. "Not only when planting paddy, but when planting every crop, we have to face this problem all the time," Thapa said.
Panauti-5 Sukumaya of Subbagaon told Shrestha that she did not get fertilizer for planting paddy and maize. "You have to go to 10 places to get 5 kg of manure, you have to suffer a lot," she said. He is in a hurry to plant but has not received any fertilizer. I think it will be found in a day or two. Rama Bhujel of Panauti-5 said that the crops were not good because they did not add enough fertilizer.
'The crop is not good when there is no fertilizer,' she said, 'For the past five years, we have not been able to apply enough fertilizer to corn, potato, and rice. Earlier, fertilizer was sufficient, and the crop was good, but now it is difficult to get fertilizer.'
Farmers are busy planting paddy at this time. But due to lack of chemical fertilizers across the country, farmers are not able to get the required amount. A farmer of Namobuddha Dapcha, who was met at the Agricultural Materials Company Limited branch office in Dhulikhel, said that he could not purchase enough fertilizer.
"Since the government started distributing fertilizer in the quota system, we have not received enough fertilizer," he said.
Sunil Kumar Mahat, who came from Panchpokhari Thangpal Rural Municipality-8 in Sindhupalchok to Dhulikhel office of the agricultural material company, got only 50 sacks of fertilizer based on the quota. According to him, 400 sacks of fertilizer should be obtained according to the demand of the farmers. However, he complained that he got less fertilizer than required because it was given on quota basis.
'Required amount of fertilizer has not been received since 3 years,' he said, 'there is no other option but Kurnarbua to get fertilizer according to the needs of the farmers, for now, fertilizer is received according to the specified quota, rather than not getting it.' "How can enough fertilizer be distributed to the farmers if fertilizer is not delivered from here," he said. Yogendra Parajuli, the head of agricultural materials company Kavre, said that due to the quota system implemented by the government in the distribution of chemical fertilizers, fertilizers could not be distributed to the farmers of Kavre according to their needs.
According to him, 22,000 to 25,000 tons of chemical fertilizers are needed according to the needs of farmers here. However, according to the quota system, as only 5,500 tons are available for the district, the required amount of fertilizer could not be distributed to the farmers, he said.
'The warehouse here was empty for about a week,' he said, 'fertilizer has just arrived, planting time has started, we are trying to distribute fertilizer to the farmers.'
"The farmers here especially plant potatoes, corn, rice, 2/3 of the crops are planted with potatoes, they also plant other vegetables, in which the farmers use a lot of chemical fertilizers," he said, "Based on the crops planted here, the land used and the needs of the farmers, the government should set a quota system for the distribution of chemical fertilizers, but that has not been done."
