The country has ample stock of urea and non-urea fertilisers to meet the quiz till December, Ministry of Agriculture Secretary Mohammad Emdad Ullah Mian mentioned this day (8 September).
“With the most modern stock of fertilisers, the quiz would perchance perchance moreover simply even be met till December. On the other hand, there are soundless some problems in opening LCs for fertiliser import, which we are consistently working to resolve,” the secretary mentioned during a discussion with the journalists of Bangladesh Agriculture Reporters Forum (BARF) on the ministry.
In accordance with the Ministry of Agriculture, there are currently 4.61 lakh tonnes of urea fertiliser, 3.22 lakh tonnes of TSP fertiliser, 3.57 lakh tonnes of DAP fertiliser and 4.37 lakh tonnes of MOP fertiliser in the country.
The secretary also mentioned the process of providing incentives to the farmers plagued by the contemporary flood is underway.
“Now we have disbursed Tk193 crore to this point to lend a hand farmers, which is able to be frail for agricultural rehabilitation in plenty of phases,” Emdad mentioned.
Below the rehabilitation programme, 80,000 little and marginal farmers of 9 districts will likely be given seeds of Ropa Aman, 10 kg of fertilisers and Tk1,000 thru cellular banking for cultivating one bigha of land every, mentioned the secretary.
As well, 1.5 lakh farmers in 22 districts will likely be given seeds of utterly different forms of vegetables and Tk1,000 for early winter vegetable cultivation in the homesteads, he added.
In accordance with files from the Ministry of Agriculture, 14,14,089 farmers have been plagued by flood from 16 August to 30 August. A total of 3,72,733 hectares of land has been damaged, and about 10 lakh tonnes of paddy, vegetables and fruits fee Tk3,346 crore have been misplaced as a consequence of the flood.
