Sanjay Gupta, Information Officer at the Salt Trading Birgunj Office, said that this lot of DAP fertilizer will be very useful as it is needed at the beginning of the rainy season.
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Salt Trading Corporation Limited has imported 10,000 tons of DAP fertilizer to its regional office in Birgunj. According to Sanjay Gupta, the office's information officer, this quantity has been imported to the Birgunj-based DAP fertilizer warehouse for the past week. Salt imported the fertilizer through a global tender. India's IPL (Indian Potash Limited) purchased the fertilizer from a third country. The fertilizer, which was imported from the Birgunj border, was coming via the Sirsia dry port and the Indian railway station in Raxaul across the border. The office has already written to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Madhesh Province government to determine the quota of the fertilizer imported, Gupta said. He said that the ministry itself will determine the fertilizer quota of all municipalities according to the districts across the province. Gupta said that although there is no demand for DAP at present, this batch of fertilizer will be very useful as it is required at the beginning of the rainy season.
The DAP introduced recently will be very useful as farmers in the border areas are not allowed to bring chemical fertilizers from India after the strict implementation of the rule of paying customs duty on goods worth more than Rs 100 from across the border.
Farmers in Madhesh Province, which is considered a storehouse of grain production, have been facing a shortage of chemical fertilizers, irrigation and seeds for the past few years. Farmers say that this has led to a decrease in rice production in the province.
