Urea is being supplied to farmers as per their demand. More urea has been distributed by cooperative societies in 33 districts till December 8 this year as compared to last year.
In the State’s districts, 1,19,000 MT urea has been made available only during December 1 to 8. Meanwhile, 56,000 MT urea of the same period is in transit. The State is getting 5 rakes of urea daily since November 11, 2014.
The State Government here on Tuesday said this year, total 6.48 lakh MT urea has been made available to the State from October 1 to December 8 including transit. This is almost equal to last year’s quantity.
It is noteworthy that the State Government is making every possible effort to make urea available to farmers. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had met Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilisers on September 14 and 20 and December 2, 2014 and urged for supply of urea as per demand. Chief Minister Chouhan has undertaken efforts to tighten up urea supply arrangements at the state level also.
In this context, during a video-conferencing on December 5, he directed commissioners and collectors to keep a constant vigil over distribution of urea from private and cooperative sectors. In the same video-conference, collectors were authorised to fix ratio of urea allocation to private and cooperative sectors as 75:25 as per demand instead of present 50:50 ratio.
In the conference, Chief Minister Chouhan had directed to undertake joint surprise inspections of private and cooperative sales centres by Revenue and Farmers Welfare and Agriculture Development departments to curb blackmarketing of urea and other fertilisers.
Besides all, DAP and Complex fertilisers have also been supplied more this year than the last year. So far this year, 2.89 lakh MT DAP has been distributed as compared to 2.65 lakh MT. This year, 82,000 MT Complex fertiliser has been distributed as compared to 54,000 MT last year.
It may also be mentioned here that last year sowing was undertaken in 100 lakh hectare area as on this day while sowing operations have been undertaken in 84.90 lakh hectares this year.