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The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) Kerala State council, the farmers’ helping of the Communist Party of India (CPI), has demanded that the Union authorities guarantee the availability of pesticides and fertilizers for farmers.
Mathew Varghese, State vice-president of the AIKS, stated that determination is simply a monolithic shortage of urea, Factamfos, NPK, bony meal, and different mixed fertilizers.
“The scarcity of pesticides and fertilizers volition effect successful little production. It volition adversely interaction the income root of the farming community,” Mr. Varghese said.
Mr. Varghese further noted that Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Limited (FACT) was primitively acceptable up nether the power of the State and Central governments to guarantee the availability of fertilisers successful the country.
“But owed to the Central government’s neglect, FACT is not producing fertilisers effectively, and it is affecting wide availability,” helium added.
In the aftermath of the West Asia crisis, the prices of pesticides and fertilizers person astir doubled successful the country, Mr. Varghese said. “The Central authorities should analyse whether vendors are attempting to make an artificial scarcity of fertilizers and pesticides nether the guise of the warfare concern successful West Asia.”
He further demanded that the authorities intervene to trim the inflated prices of fertilisers and pesticides to enactment the farming community.
