Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has sought immediate action to prevent hoarding of fertlizers and to ensure supply of urea and DAP fertilizers to companies as per the quota allotted to Chhattisgarh.
Agriculture Department officials have been directed to inspect the stocks of wholesalers and retailers and to blacklist those hoarding. Baghel has given instructions to immediately transfer the stock of urea and DAP fertilizers from wholesalers to retailers.
Accordingly, the Managing Director and Additional Director of the Cooperative Marketing Federation in Raipur took a joint meeting of fertilizer suppliers, wholesalers and retailers on June 23.
He instructed the companies to ensure supply of remaining quantity of urea and DAP for April to June by June 30 as per the quota allotted to Chhattisgarh.
The meeting was told that the total allocation of urea from April to June is 272,503 tonnes. Against an order for 311,203 tonnes, only 94,024 tonnes have been supplied till date.
Similarly, the total allocated quota of DAP is 162,027 tonnes. Against a total order of 2,10,354 tonnes, only 70,079 tonnes have been supplied. There is a similar shortfall in urea fertilizers too.
The Additional Director warned all wholesalers and retailers that if they failed to follow the instructions, they would be blacklisted.