Farmers Protest Artificial Urea Shortage As Prices Rise
Warangal: Authorities insist that there is no shortage of fertilizer and that stocks are allocated to centers according to demand. However, farmers in the Warangal region tell a different story by organizing protests on the lack of urea. In many cases, merchants produce famine to benefit from the situation: although a 45 kg urea bag costs 266, 310 la and in some cases La 330- ₹ 350.
Moreover, some dealers force farmers to buy organic potas, priced at a price of 1,400 for a 20 kg bag as a condition for buying urea. Farmers who are faced with the threat that Üre can be hidden in other ways feel forced to buy potas. They do not provide enough stock of the agricultural department officials of hiding them with these traders. Despite the wide reserves in private warehouses, dealers refuse to sell and deliberately create a famine. As a result, farmers line up for hours outside the PACS offices and agricultural centers in the region.
In a sad incident in Nallabelly Mandal, two farmers, Dhanraj Naik and Bilyanaik Thanda’dan Jumiki Lal, who claimed to have stacked 1,200 bags to raise prices to protest against the dealer Karra Redya attempted to protest. Farmers intervened after showing outside the shop.
Mandal Agriculture Officer B. Rajitha confirmed that the dealer kept 1,200 bags of urea and that it was illegal to refuse to sell to farmers. He promised that he would take action against him. Regional Agricultural Officer K. Anuradha said that the Deccan Chronicle had no shortage of urea and that it was enough stock for all farmers. He reiterated the government directives that limited a bag of a bag per acre and warned that dealers could be canceled due to conformity.
An unexpected examination in Khaja Mainuddin fertilizers and pesticides in Nallabelly Mandal revealed an invoicing book that lists non -urea farmers. Anuradha said that the authorities seized 213 bags urea and the inventory of the store.
