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As the Northeast monsoon has been progressive and farming activities person begun successful galore places successful Ramanathapuram district, the Agricultural Department has received a full banal of 572 metric tonnes of urea fertilizer stock, required for samba season.
Officials said that in Ramanathapuram district, a full of 907 mm rainfall was recorded in the existent year.
Utilising the Northeast monsoon rains, cultivation crops, including paddy (rice), millets, pulses, groundnut, and oilseed crops, arsenic good arsenic horticultural crops specified as chillies, coconut, and effect crops, are being cultivated connected an country of 1,69,800 hectares, they added.
The 572 MT of urea fertilizer stock, required for the samba season, was received done Madurai and the banal was dispatched to Primary Agricultural Co-operative Credit Societies (PACS) - 142 MT, private fertilizer retail outlets - 430 MT, successful the district.
Assistant Director of Agriculture (Information and Data Control), P. Nagarajan, who oversaw the fertilizer distribution, said a full banal of 6,275 MT of fertilizers was maintained to conscionable the needs of the crops nether cultivation.
The fertilizers in retention included Urea: 2,031 MT, Diammonium Phosphate: 957 MT, Potash: 467 MT and Complexes: 2,820 MT.
Mr. Nagarajan noted that the fertilizer sellers were mandated to show the banal details and the terms database of the fertilizers where farmers could easily spot them.
“During sales, fertilizers must lone beryllium sold utilizing the Point of Sale (PoS) instrumentality aft obtaining the Aadhaar paper details from the farmers. A income receipt indispensable beryllium provided to the farmers,” helium added.
Those flouting the rules would beryllium subjected to strict action, arsenic per the provisions of the Fertilizer Control Order, 1985.
