The agitating farmers, who came all the way from Bhimdatta Municipality and adjoining VDCs, said they could not get required quantity of fertilizers in this paddy season despite repeated requests for the last couple of months. [break]
They chanted slogans against the government and District Administration Office, Kanchanpur, in a bid to pile pressure on Chief District Officer Buddhi Bahadur Khadka to distribute fertilizers without further delay.
Farmers rushed to AICL´s go-down after learning that a truck load of fertilizers had entered the district. The farmers have barred AICL employees from storing the fertilizers store in the go-down.
“The officials should distribute all the fertilizers to the farmers or else we will suffer huge loss from paddy plantation this season,” said Ganga Bhatta, a farmer from Suda area.
AICL officials are under immense pressure to arrange distribution of fertilizers, which is far lower in quantity than the demand.
“Though we need at least 1,500 quintals of fertilizers, we have received only a truckload of fertilizers,” Bharat Swanr, chief of AICL´s Mahendranagar office, said.
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