In view of the speculations spreading in a few places regarding availability of fertilizers in Rabi season in the State, the Agriculture Department has made the situation of fertilizer availability clear. A rakewise programme was issued to all fertilizer suppliers for the next 7 days in the State.
Fertilizer availability is being ensured while computing the consumption of 25 per cent more quantity than the month of November last year. This order has been given for the rake movement of urea on priority, keeping in view the requirement of urea of the current Rabi season by the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Department of Fertilizers, Government of India, New Delhi.
The availability of 5 lakh metric tonne urea has been ensured against urea availability of 3.50 lakh metric tonnes in the state for the month of November. So far, 2.75 lakh metric tonnes of urea has arrived in the state in November and about 2.25 lakh metric tonnes more of urea is expected to arrive.
All companies have been given the priority of urea supply in the state by the Government of India. Railway has also ordered prioritizing urea companies to bring imported urea kept on ports to the state. At present, three rakes of urea in Harda, two each in Mangliya, Itarsi and satna, one rake each Chhindwada, Khandwa, Sehore, Betul, Sagar, Ratlam and Morena are in transit.
Instructions have been given to the fertilizer companies by the Agriculture Department to bring the urea rakes on the following rake points in the coming days. 04 rakes for Ujjain, 03 for Shajapur, 03 for Neemuch (for Neemuch and Mandsaur), 04 in Dewas, 06 in Indore (for Indore, Dhar an Khargone), 02 in Meghnagar (Jhabua, Alirajpur), 04 for Khandwa (Khandwa, Khargone, Burhanpur) 03 for Harda, 03 for Vidisha, 01 for Bhopal, 02 for Sehore, 04 for Mandideep (Raisen, Sehore), 03 for Pachore (Rajgarh), 06 for Itarsi (Hoshangabad), 02 for Pipariya (for Hoshangabad), 02 for Betul, 02 for Chhatarpur, 02 for Damoh, 01 for Tikamgarh, 03 for Satna (Satna, Sidhi, Singrauli), 02 for Rewa (Rewa, Sidhi, Singrauli), 03 for Sagar, 02 for Narsinghpur, 04 for Jabalpur (Jabalpur, Mandla, Dindori), 03 for Katni (Katni, Panna, Shahdol, Umaria, Anuppur), 03 for Chhindwada (Chhindwada, Seoni), 01 for Dabra (Gwalior, Datia), 03 for Gwalior (Gwalior, Datia, Bhind), 04 for Shivpuri (Shivpuri, Sheopur, AShoknagar), 01 for Ashoknagar, 04 for Morena (Morena, Bhind).