Urea fertilizer is not likely to come in the paddy season this year.
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Due to lack of supply according to demand, there has been an extreme shortage of urea fertilizer in Bardia. Farmers are worried because the agricultural material company Bardia is not supplying fertilizer as per the demand.
The middlemen have been selling 894 rupees 50 paise of urea fertilizer found in Nepal in the Indian border market for up to 2,500 rupees. In bordering India, the price per bag is 272 rupees. Harishchandra Tharu, a farmer of Gulria Municipality-8, said that if they are brought through middlemen, they have to trick the Indian security personnel. 'We have been experiencing this situation every year,' he said, 'if the condition of manure remains like this, we have thought that we will not cultivate rice from next year.'
Although the government assured that there will be no shortage of fertilizer, the farmers have not received fertilizer. Local farmers Hariram Yadav said that the government is lying. '' During the election, assurances are coming to farmers that we will supply fertilizer easily on time, but fertilizer is not coming,'' he said . Yadav said that it is unfortunate for the farmers that there is no rain on time, seeds and fertilizer are not available.
Agricultural materials company has distributed 40,000 sacks of fertilizer to cooperatives since last May. Lal Bahadur Chaudhary, the head of the company, said that there is a need for 56,000 more sacks of fertilizer. "The company does not have a single bag of urea fertilizer now," he said.
Every year, 25 percent of manure was illegally imported from India into Bardia. Due to the strictness of the Indian government, we have stopped getting fertilizers. In Bardia, rice is cultivated on 50,150 hectares.
