KANCHANPUR, Nov 8: The Shuklaphanta municipality has introduced quota for distribution of chemical fertilizer to the farmers.
With this, the farmers would be distributed the chemical fertilizer via cooperatives. Agriculture Inputs Company Limited in the district has allocated 1,677 sacks (8,321 metric tons) of fertilizer to the municipality.
Chief administrative officer at municipality, Tikendra Raj Bhatta, informed that it would be easier to distribute chemical fertilizer via cooperative.
The Politics of Quotas
A total of 22 cooperatives will buy and supply fertilizers in the local level. The associated members of cooperation and number of farmers have been kept in account while determining distribution quota, according to Karan Singh Budhar Air, chief of agricultural development section. He added that the cooperatives with few members are provided less fertilizer.
However, one cooperation will get at least 125 to 154 sacks of chemical fertilizers.
The municipality records more use of DAP fertilizer than the determined quota. The farmers here are demanding 13,000 metric tons of chemical fertilizer (DAP) every year.
Due to short supply, farmers are bound to compromise with low quality fertilizer during cultivation.
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