Municipality joins hands with STC to ease availability of fertilizers

The Baglung municipality has reached an agreement with Salt Trading Corporation Baglung distribution branch to facilitate supply of fertilizer while also ensuring fixation of its price in a scientific manner.

Deputy Mayor of the Municipality Raju Khadka said that it has been agreed to provide chemical fertilizers subsidized by the government at a reasonable price to the farmers within the municipality.

“An agreement has been reached to supply fertilizers to farmers on time and make the pricing uniform. This will ensure that the farmers will get fertilizers at the right time and in an appropriate price.”

Khadka also claimed that in the coming year there will be no shortage of fertilizers, while market monitoring will be intensified to avoid farmers being cheated and duped.

Likewise, Chief of Baglung Distribution Center of Salt Trading Corporation, Manoj Shrestha, said uniformity will be maintained in the price so that the farmers are not cheated.

Meanwhile, the Baglung municipality has set the price of fertilizer as per the recommendation of the National Consumer Forum Baglung, Salt Trading Corporation, Baglung, Agricultural Knowledge Center and Baglung Chamber of Commerce and Industry and asked the farmers to buy fertilizer at the same price.

According to the municipality, the price of urea fertilizer has been fixed at Rs 23 per kg in the market area and Rs 25 per kg in the rural areas of the municipality.

Similarly, the price of DAP fertilizer has been fixed at Rs 52 per kg in the market area, Rs 53 per kg in the wards near the market and Rs 54 per kg in the Balewa area.

Similarly, the price of potash fertilizer has been fixed at Rs 40 per kg in the market area, Rs 41 in the wards close to the market and Rs 42 in other wards.