The Birgunj provincial office of the agricultural materials company is now struggling to store the additional fertilizer that is arriving after all its warehouses are full.
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Fertilizer from agricultural supply companies has piled up in Birgunj after the district failed to receive the fertilizer quota and began receiving it regularly.
The company's Birgunj provincial office is now struggling to store the incoming fertilizer after all its warehouses are full.
Durga Prasad Pandey, head of the company's provincial office, says that due to the lack of warehouses to store the incoming fertilizer, a new warehouse has been found for rent. 'Fertilizer has been coming in regularly, there is no quota for fertilizer,' he said, 'Now a new warehouse for rent has been found because there is a shortage of storage space.'
In the case of the province, the Madhesh Province Agriculture Ministry, which determines the fertilizer quota for each district, has not determined the quota for fertilizer entering through the Birgunj border for a long time. Currently, farmers have also spread urea and DAP fertilizer for the wheat crop, so the demand for both fertilizers is not that high.
Currently, 20 warehouses - four in the company's own office premises, five in Bhutandevi, two rented from CG Company, two from National Trading and five from Tiara Motors - are filled with fertilizer. These warehouses currently have about 49,000 tons of fertilizer in stock, including 35,000 tons of urea, 8,000 tons of DAP, and 8,000 tons of potash.
Recently, the company has imported 8,500 tons of urea from India through the G2G process, 2,500 tons of urea from two consignments supplied by Sun International Company, 19,000 tons of DAP from two consignments supplied by India's IPL Company, and 6,000 tons of potash fertilizer from another consignment through the Birgunj border crossing. A large quantity of fertilizer, both old and new, is currently stocked in Birgunj.
Pandey says that the state's Ministry of Agriculture has not regularly fixed quotas and there is no demand for fertilizer at this time, which is why the fertilizer stock in Birgunj is currently high.
