It has been found that the chemical fertilizers coming to the farmers are being misused in the district. It has been found that the agricultural cooperatives that have taken dealerships for sales and distribution in their working areas have misused the subsidized fertilizers.
There is a rule that cooperatives cannot sell fertilizer to others except their working area and members. But the farmers say that most of the agricultural cooperatives in the district are black-marketing subsidized fertilizers against the cooperative discipline.
As per the demand, only a few subsidized fertilizers are supplied in the district and even then, the farmers of the district are deprived of getting that fertilizer. Farmers say that the chairmen and officials of fertilizer cooperatives are currently in trouble.
Raka Yadav, a farmer of Taulihawa, accused the agricultural cooperatives of black-marketing the fertilizers sent to the farmers. “The cooperative does not give us fertilizer, they sell it to those who pay more than the specified amount,” he said in frustration. The District Agriculture Committee had decided to sell subsidized fertilizers through agricultural cooperatives since 10 years ago. Before that, agricultural products were sold to dealers and farmers through the company. At present, fertilizers brought from Bhairahawa and Bahadurganj agricultural materials and salt trading Krishnanagar are sold to agricultural cooperatives.
Fertilizer cooperatives, which are sold only to their members, sell to fertilizer traders, farmers who pay more, and plywood industry. According to Krishi Gyan Kendra, more than 300 cooperatives in the district have taken dealership permission for dealing in subsidized fertilizers. Sources say that more than half of them are misusing subsidized fertilizers and selling them. According to the sources, most of the urea fertilizers are misused among urea, DAP and potash. Narahari Pokhrel, the head of agricultural materials company Taulihwa, said that concessional urea will be sold at Rs.
But the farmers complain that although the cooperative is allowed to take the amount for the rent as per the municipality, they take more money and sell it on the road. A resident of Bahadurganj said that most of the urea fertilizer coming to the farmers is bought from cooperatives in Bahadurganj and the Ply Wood Industries located around it. He said that the ply industry gives more money from 2 to 300 per bag. There are half a dozen ply industries from Bahadurganj to Paikhibanda. Urea fertilizer is used in plywood industry to make gum paste.
An industry consumes 30 to 50 bags of urea per day. . Cooperative worker Pushpa Regmi demanded that the police administration should be strict to prevent the misuse of cooperative fertilizers. “Action should be taken against those who abuse the concessional fertilizer for farmers,” she said. Pragya Dharmendra Kumar Mishra said that he has not yet received any complaints or complaints about it. Pragya Dharmendra Mishra said that monitoring will be increased against the cooperatives that misuse and sell subsidized fertilizers. “Now we will increase the monitoring of agricultural cooperatives, we will take action if found involved,” he said.
154 cooperatives from their branches buy fertilizer from here according to the quota set by the recommendation of the agricultural material according to Toulihawa. Agricultural materials 1 thousand 153.350 metric tons of urea, 1 thousand 78.8 hundred metric tons of DAP and 59 metric tons of DAP have arrived in Taulihwa within the current financial year. Narhari Pokhrel, the head of the Agricultural Material Taulihawa, said that the quota of fertilizer was given to cooperatives recommended by the municipality.
Published: Jan 7, 2023 16:08 Saturday
