Farmers To Get Fertilisers For Kharif Crops

Telangana Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy today held a virtual meeting with government agencies, including SCR and Markfed, and various state officials on the procurement of fertilisers from the Centre during which he announced that the state government had decided to give a total of 25.5 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of fertilisers to the farmers in the state for the upcoming Vaanakalam (kharif) cropping season.

After informing the officials that the Centre had allotted 25.5 LMT of fertilisers for the state, the minister instructed them to start taking steps for the effective distribution of the same to the farmers.

Elaborating further on the matter, he said, "Out of the state's current fertiliser stock of 6.6 LMT, 3.73 LMT is the urea-based kind while the remaining 2.92 LMT is an assortment of other kinds of fertilisers. Since the Centre has given us 25 LMT more, the same should be distributed to godowns across the state. Officials must take steps to provide buffer stocks of fertilisers by shifting the already available stock to godowns across all the districts. The civil supplies and agriculture departments must coordinate with other relevant departments to coordinate the processes of maintaining adequate stocks and of distribution."

Reddy also asked the officials to ensure that districts like Karimnagar, Adilabad and Nizamabad, which need higher stocks of fertiliser for the upcoming cropping season, get the same without any delay, and warned that hoarders and traders violating norms like selling the stocks would be punished severely.

Further, officials were also asked to continuously monitor the distribution and selling processes, and to ensure availability to all the farmers in the state.