Bhubaneswar: In view of the acute shortage of fertilisers during the current Kharif season, Odisha government has urged the Centre to supply 1.03 lakh tonne urea immediately.
Agriculture and Farmers’ Empowerment Minister Arun Kumar Sahoo said, the centre has provided only 56,228 tonnes of urea in June as against its quota of 70,000 tonnes for the month.
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This was informed by Sahoo after a virtual meeting between state agriculture ministers and Union Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers Mansukh Mandaviya.
Expressing his concern Sahoo said Mandaviya, “Though Odisha required one lakh tonne of urea, the state has received only 34,150 tonnes by August 17.”
He requested Mandaviya to provided 1.03 lakh metric tonne of urea to meet the demand of the farmers.
“The fertilisera imported by Indian Potash Limited should be supplied to Odisha,” Sahoo said.
On the other hand Agriculture and Food Production director M Muthukumar wrote to all district collectors to take action against the dealers who are involved in “artificial shortage” of urea which in alter responsible for hike in urea price.
PNN
