Prithvi Sah of Kalikamai Rural Municipality-5 says that urea is not available in Nepal and due to the strictness of the government in India as well, farmers are not able to bring it as easily as in the past.
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Although urea fertilizer is necessary for paddy crop, farmers have not got it easily. Due to the acute shortage of urea, farmers have started using expensive DAP fertilizer instead. Damodar Prasad Yadav of Birganj Harpatganj says that urea is essential for farmers when it starts raining heavily.
"After the rains, the farmers should spread urea on the paddy," he said, "but at this time the farmers did not get the fertilizer." Yadav said that the farmers could not get it when they were looking for it because the cooperatives from the Agricultural Materials Company and Salt Trading Corporation Limited had taken their respective quotas.
Prithvi Sah of Kalikamai Rural Municipality-5 says that urea is not available in Nepal and due to the strictness of the government in India as well, the farmers could not bring it as easily as in the past. He said that since some farmers did not get urea, they started sowing expensive DAP in rice crops. "Urea contains 46 percent nitrogen while DAP contains only 18 percent," he said, "Rice crop saprin needs nitrogen elements." But the farmer has to pay 2000 for that in the market . Similarly, the cooperative price of 50 kg of DAP is Rs 2,350. When bought in the market, its price ranges from 3,000 to 3,200 per bag.
Salt Trading Birgunj Regional Office currently has no urea in stock . Sanjay Gupta, the information officer of the office said that since all the cooperatives have taken the fertilizer of Parsa's quota, there is no urea available for the farmers here. He said that there is only 366 tons of urea remaining to be taken by the cooperatives of other districts and that too will be completed within a few days.
Gupta said that out of the 29,000 tons of urea remaining to be supplied by the Aditya Birla Company through the global tender, the remaining 8,000 tons are coming to the Bhairahawa channel. Some of that fertilizer will be received by Birganj Regional Office . He said that two trucks of urea from Bhairahawa also arrived in Birganj on Sunday. But the fertilizer will also be distributed only after reaching the quota.
Durga Prasad Pandey, head of the Birgunj regional office of the agricultural material company, also stated that there is no fertilizer to give to the farmers of the district as the cooperatives of Parsa have already distributed their quota of urea. But he said that Sun International Company, which had previously received the contract for the supply of 30,000 tons of urea from the global tender, has started bringing the remaining 16,000 tons of fertilizer and 7,000 tons of it was received by the Birgunj Regional Office.
He said that 10 percent of the 7,000 tons of buffer stock will be cut and the rest will be distributed to the eight districts of Madhesh. Pandey says that it is not possible to say when the fertilizer will be distributed as the quota has not been taken.
