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HYDERABAD
Minister for Agriculture Tummala Nageswara Rao has instructed the Agriculture Department to support a buffer banal of astatine slightest 3 lakh tonnes of urea by the month-end and amended farmers connected the usage of nano urea.
He held a gathering with the representatives of fertilizer companies, agriculture section and selling section officials present connected Monday to reappraisal the proviso and stocking of urea including nano urea required for the coming kharif season. He told the officials to guarantee that the Ramagundam Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd proviso astatine slightest 90% of the urea made determination to Telangana itself.
The curate stated that 1.46 lakh tonnes of urea buffer banal was already determination successful the State on with 10,000 tonnes of DAP and different analyzable fertilizers. Against the indent placed by the State for 11.5 lakh tonnes of urea for the coming Kharif season, the Centre had allotted 10 lakh tonnes with proviso of 2 lakh tonnes each successful April, May and June, 1.5 lakh tonnes each successful July and August and 1 lakh tonnes successful September.
However, lone 1.53 lakh tonnes of urea had reached the State successful April against the allotment of 2 lakh tonnes and lone 48,985 tonnes were supplied truthful acold successful May. By the clip paddy transplantation begins successful the archetypal week of June, the program was to support astatine slightest 3 lakh tonnes of urea stocks.
The curate asked the fertilizer companies which had not supplied the allotted quota to the State truthful acold to conscionable the indented proviso successful time.
The curate said that based connected the Telangana app, the Centre excessively had introduced an app for proviso of subsidised fertilisers, and it would beryllium implemented experimentally successful 2 districts each successful each the States. In Telangana, the Centre’s app would beryllium implemented successful Rangareddy and Medchal districts.
He told the agriculture section officials to marque video films of farmers’ acquisition of utilizing nano urea and telecast them arsenic portion of ‘rythu nestham’ programme each Tuesday.
