28-Nov-2024 03:29 PM
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Patna, Nov 28 (Reporter) Bihar Agriculture Minister Mangal Pandey on Thursday informed the Assembly that there will be no dearth of DAP fertilizer in the state.
Replying to a short noticed question of MLA Ajay Kumar in the house, Pandey said that against the requirement of 1.75 lakh metric tonne of DAP fertilizer, 1.34 lakh metric tonne of DAP fertilizer was currently available.
He said that Bihar would get 10,000 metric tonne DAP fertilizer from the centre within a week and maintained that the farmers will have no shortage of it.
The Minister said that currently 77% of the DAP fertilizer was available and the rest of the requirement would be made available within a week.
Through his supplementary, Ajay Kumar asked the government to inform about the availability of DAP feritlizer on time as per requirement in every district. He also tried to draw the attention of the house towards the black marketing and suggested its strong monitoring.
Congress MLA Shakeel Ahmed questioned why the DAP fertilizer was not being made available as per requirement and on time to the farmers?
After question hour, the Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary tabled the CAG report for the year 2016-22 in the house...////...