Yamunanagar: Farmers under Bharatiya Bharatiya banner Union (BKU) Charuni sat in an office outside the office of Deputy Commissioner Yamunanagar (DC) on Tuesday, for lack of urea fertilizer for several days.
A large number of farmers gathered outside the Mini District Secretariat in Jagadhri City Yamberagar at around 11 am and the heavy police became time.
When the farmers marched towards the DC office, the police stopped them at the gate.
Angry farmers lock the DC office with a chain and sit at the gate.
The agricultural leaders accused that over the past few days, they faced a lack of urea, which could lead to the loss of their crops.
Yamunan District President Bku Charuni Sanju Gundiana accused, “Farmers need urea fertilizer because they have irrigated their wheat plants.
When sowing, we struggle to get DAP, and now when it’s time to keep plants but we face.
Urea shortages.
Until the moment These, the demand for Urea Yamunanagar Regency has not been fulfilled and the farmers must wait in a long queue.
We have provided a demand note several times to DC but it is unsuccessful.
“Yamunanagar DC Parth Gupta, Deputy Deputy Director of Agriculture (DDA) Jasvinder Saini, and Jagadhri HR SUSHIL Kumar reached a place to talk to the farmers who protested.
District Administrative Officers assured farmers that fertilizer supply would be normal on Sundays and every farmer would get the same as the requirements.
In this guarantee, the farmers decided to lift protests and warn the officials that if Urea was not supplied by Sunday, they would sit in protest on Monday (December 20), said Sanju Gundiana.
The leader of the Kaushik Satpal Farmer said that the government must ensure the smooth supply of urea to farmers through the cooperative community of primary agriculture (PACS) and to stop the illegal supply of urea in a higher level plywood plant.
Dda Jasvinder Saini said, “The farmers face some problems because there is a short supply of urea.
But in three days, the Yamunanagar district will receive nearly 60,000 urea bags.
We have convinced the farmers that on Sunday, one brings Urea to be delivered.” For the query, Dda Jasvinder said, “In Yamboodar, the area under wheat during the rabbi season is about 85,000 hectares.
We have a request of around 52,000 urea metrics (MT) urea in the rabbi season for yamunanagar.
As far as we have received around 24,900 MT Urea from 35,000 MT required, which is around 10,000 MT short.
“For other requests DDA Jasvinder said,” There are no traders who will be allowed to supply subsidized urea intended for agricultural use in plywood factories or industrial use.
If there are people found in practice This, we will take action.
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