Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 16: Senior BJP leader and former Minister Sukhnandan Kumar Choudhary today charged the J&K Government with failure to provide fertilizer to farmers in sowing season.
“As the farmers in Jammu are already in trouble due to untimely rainfall and winds, the acute shortage of Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) fertilizers has added more worries to them,” he said, while talking to media persons, here today.
The ex-BJP Minister explained that the Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) was very much needed during sowing period. For the last several years, the farmers in Jammu region are facing natural calamities like thunderstorms and heavy rains, now the UT Government has created another trouble for them, he added.
“During the LG rule in J&K, we never suffered such types of problems and in case of any issue, the things were resolved in days,” said Sukhnandan, adding that the present Government was totally ignorant of the farmers’ issues especially of the farmers of Jammu region. Now no one is here to listen to the plight of the farmers, said Sukhnandan.
“Our Prime Minister Narendra Modi and LG Manoj Sinha have always supported farmers in J&K. However, this time, the sowing season will go waste as J&K Government is totally ignorant of major trouble because of this scarcity of DAP fertilizer,” he said.
The senior BJP leader said that given the non- availability of sufficient DAP fertilizer at depot/dealer’s shop, the farmers are compelled to purchase the fertilizer from neighbouring States especially Punjab. He alleged that the Government was deliberately showing shortage of fertilizer because of hefty commission from other fertilizer companies which produce and manufacture the fertilizer in neighbouring States.
“There can be a nexus between the Government, who may have been getting huge commission from the private fertilizer manufacturers,” he said and sought intervention of LG Manoj Sinha to assure the availability of DAP fertilizer at the time of its need.
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