The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Farmers have failed to prepare their Aman seedbeds due to the ongoing crisis of two types of fertiliser across the country.

"Farmers have failed to collect MOP and TSP as per the requirement for preparing Aman seedbeds till yesterday," an official of Agriculture Ministry told the New Nation.

He added that the Ministry has been receiving three to four requests per day through letters and phone calls from farmers since July 15.

He further said that the production of Aman would be hampered if the government failed to supply these two types fertilisers.

The government has a stock 94,651 tonnes of urea, 10,344 tonnes of MOP and 15,926 tonnes of TSP against the demand of 9,82,653 tonnes of urea, 56,129.5 tonnes of MOP and 52,217 tonnes of TSP in Aman season between July and mid November.

The government has earmarked to produce 136.59 lakh tonnes of Aman crops on 58.20 lakh hectares of land this year.