No shortage of chemical fertilizer this year, Agriculture Ministry says

This year there will be no shortage of chemical fertilizer for paddy transplantation, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development said on Sunday urging farmers to confidently advance farming. The farmers need DAP fertilizer in the initial days for paddy transplantation.

Information Officer of the Ministry, Mahananda Joshi, said that the Agriculture Inputs Company Limited has a stock of 52,000 metric tonnes of urea fertilizer while the Salt Trading Company Limited has 26,050 metric tonnes.

Similarly, the Agriculture Inputs Company Limited has 5,434 metric tonnes and the Salt Trading Company has 4,092 metric tonnes of DAP fertilizer in stock from the last year.

Furthermore, the two state-owned companies have a stock of more than 11,800 metric tonnes of potash.

The Ministry said that both companies are importing an additional 242,119 metric tonnes of urea fertilizer and almost 98,000 metric tonnes of DAP fertilizer.

Information Officer Joshi shared that the remaining quantity of fertilizers will be imported within a month.