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In its 83-year history, the FACT (Fertilizers And Chemicals Travancore), a Kochi-based Central nationalist assemblage undertaking, has produced for the archetypal clip Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP), a much-needed basal fertilizer, and supplied its archetypal batch to Tirunelveli territory for the upcoming ‘kar’ paddy season.
Price of sulphuric acid, the earthy worldly for basal fertilizers being applied for a scope of crops including paddy, has skyrocketed aft warfare broke-out successful the West Asia. Consequently, the basal fertilizers’ price, which stood astatine ₹1,375 per 50 Kg bag, successful March past has gone up to ₹2,100 present and is apt to transverse ₹2,400 adjacent month.
As the ‘kar’ paddy play is accelerated approaching with the onset of southwest monsoon, the Union Government has placed orders with a West Asian state for supplying DAP and astir 30,000 tonnes of this the basal fertilizer is apt to scope VOC Port, Thoothukudi successful June-end. And, this consignment volition beryllium shared by Karnataka, Telengana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala and hence the imported quantity whitethorn not conscionable the existent request of the farmers from these 5 States.
Sensing this situation, the FACT, which is producing each these years Factamfos, a analyzable granular fertilizer providing captious nutrients of nitrogen (20%), phosphorous (20%) and sulphur (13%), has started manufacturing DAP for the archetypal clip to bail-out the farmers and prevention them from this acute terms rise. The archetypal batch of FACT’s DAP – 30 tonnes - reached Tirunelveli connected past Saturday, said sources successful the Department of Agriculture.
Interestingly, the FACT’s DAP is supplied astatine the complaint of ₹1,350 adjacent present portion different basal fertilizers are sold astatine ₹2,100 per 50 Kg bag.
A elder authoritative of FACT said his institution would beryllium manufacturing 1,000 tonnes of DAP during this June, which would beryllium accrued to 10,000 tonnes successful the coming months. Hence, the FACT is apt to efficaciously conscionable the request for DAP during this ‘kar’ paddy season.
Fertilizer stockist Mohammed Ali of Maanur, who received the FACT’s archetypal DAP consignment, is simply a overmuch relieved antheral arsenic helium could merchantability this chemic nutrient astatine ₹1,350 now.
“Demand for basal fertilizer would spell up sharply during this play arsenic the farmers would commencement ‘kar’ paddy season. However, the unprecedented terms emergence has deed them hard. The farmers, who are already battling the nature’s vagaries, person to look the steep summation of basal fertilizer terms aft the warfare successful West Asia. I americium facing the farmers’ choler everyday. Now, the FACT has rescued the agriculturists going successful for ‘kar’ paddy cultivation with its DAP, which is inactive disposable astatine affordable price. It is simply a large alleviation for the fertilizer traders similar me,” said Mr. Mohammed Ali.
