The Union Government has assured to expedite the supply of DAP and other fertilizers to Punjab and the rakes of DAP will be moved on priority for the State in coming days, a statement issued by the State Government said here.
Earlier Punjab Agriculture Minister Randeep Singh Nabha had requested to speed up the supply of DAP and informed that the state has the total due allocation of 5.50 Lakh Metric Tonne (LMT) DAP for Rabi 2021-22 but received only 1.51 LMT of DAP. The Minister said that the State had demanded 2.75 LMT of DAP during October-2021, out of which only 1.97 LMT was allocated by the Government of India, for the month of October but received only 1.51 LMT.
Thereby, it has created an imbalance & shortage of 1.24 LMT of DAP in October. He added that the state had already demanded a quantity of 2.50 LMT DAP for November 2021. If we add the deficiency of October-2021, the demand for November-2021 scaled up to 3.74 LMT. He specifically mentioned that against this requirement of 3.74 LMT in November-2021, only 0.68 LMT has been received up till 11 November 2021.
The Agriculture Minister said that about 85% sowing of wheat in the State would be completed by 25th November and now sowing is at its peak. He already instructed the state Agriculture Officials to keep a strict vigil on black marketing & hoarding of DAP and unnecessary tagging of other products along with.