With sowing of mustard underway and that of wheat to choose up after Diwali, a nationwide scarcity of di-ammonium phosphate (DAP) has led to panic amongst farmers in Haryana, with police stepping in to deal with crowds through the distribution of the important thing fertiliser.
DAP is required on the early stage of root institution and improvement, and farmers apply it together with the seeds.
At Gohana in Haryana’s Sonipat district and Narnaul in Mahendragarh, DAP baggage have been bought within the presence of police personnel. In Uchana in Jind on October 26, a farmer receivedminor accidents as police tried to manage an unruly crowd that had gathered on the native cooperative society workplace to purchase the fertiliser.
At Tosham police station in Bhiwani district, police took over the method, handing over slips to farmers that they may change for DAP baggage. On Sunday, a whole lot of farmers, a lot of them girls, stood in lengthy queues outdoors the Tosham police station, ready for the slips.
Dayanand Poonia, a farmer activist from Bhiwani, informed The Indian Categorical that farmers from round 12 villages acquired data on Sunday morning that 1,500 DAP baggage had arrived on the Main Agriculture Cooperative Society in Pataudi village. The farmers have been informed to gather their slips from the Tosham police station, 23 km away.
Sher Singh, 70, from Rodan village, was amongst those that collected his slip from the police station. “I had gone to the cooperative workplace in Pataudi on Saturday, however there have been so many individuals I made a decision to return the next morning. The subsequent day, I reached Pataudi at 6 am, however once more, the crowds have been unmanageable. Lastly, we have been requested to come back to the Tosham police station. We have been pushed round there too, however I lastly received my slip.”
Agriculture Division Sub Divisional Officer (Bhiwani) Sanjay Kumar stated, “There have been extra farmers than DAP baggage at Pataudi. First, we known as the police there however they may not management the gang. We thought a scuffle could get away, so we determined to difficulty slips from the police station.”
Farmers sometimes want one 50-kg bag of DAP for each acre of mustard and wheat sown, with this going as much as three baggage within the case of potato. Mustard and potato planting normally occurs in October, with wheat following in November.
The present scarcity of DAP is being blamed on increased world costs, aggravated by the federal government fixing a low MRP with insufficient subsidy concession that has made imports unviable.
On the present MRP of Rs 1,350 per bag (Rs 27,000 per tonne) and subsidy of Rs 21,911, the gross realisation for firms involves Rs 48,911 per tonne. Alternatively, the landed value of DAP imports is now at $642-644 per tonne or Rs 53,930-54,100. Including import responsibility, bagging, port dealing with, curiosity and supplier margins, the associated fee goes as much as about Rs 65,000 per tonne. The resultant loss-making proposition has meant that solely 19.67 lakh tonnes of the fertiliser received imported throughout April-September 2024, in comparison with 34.53 lakh tonnes in April-September 2023.
Admitting to scarcity of DAP, Rajbir Singh, Deputy Director, Haryana Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Division, stated, “For instance, Hisar district has acquired a provide of solely 8,000 MT DAP fertiliser up to now towards the demand of 25,000 MT. We predict a provide of extra DAP baggage within the coming days.”
Poonia stated that whereas it’s farmers within the mustard rising districts of Haryana who’re determined for DAP, the scarcity is more likely to worsen as soon as the wheat sowing season begins from Diwali.
“Sowing for mustard is on in Dadri, Narnaul, Bhiwani, Rewari and Hisar and farmers right here usually are not getting sufficient DAP. If the provision of DAP shouldn’t be elevated, the disaster will worsen as a result of after November 15, farmers in wheat rising areas would additionally be a part of the queue for the fertiliser,” added Poonia.
Admitting to the acute scarcity of DAP, a senior BJP chief who spoke on situation of anonymity stated farmers within the state should get satisfactory allocation of DAP and the motion and shares of the fertiliser should be checked to make sure uninterrupted provide.
