A Correspondent :
The farmers in Jhenaidah have been compelled to use the cement hard fertilizers supplied through the dealers appointed by Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC). Each of the pieces of the coagulated fertilizer is five to six kilogram in weight.
The dealers have been blaming the buffer godowns authority in Kaliganj as they have been forcibly pushing the coagulated urea to the dealers.
Some BCIC dealers alleged that the buffer godown authority push at least 40 per cent of the allocated fertilizer with the normal urea. But they face troubles when the farmers buy the same from them. The coagulated balls might be broken in to smaller with bamboo made lathi or iron ones.
They said, thousands hundreds of tones of cement hard urea were lying unsold in the buffer godowns of the BCIC at Kaliganj. The matter was brought in to the notice of the BCIC authority time and again which could not produce any fruitful results, they said.
BCIC buffer godown in charge Jalal Uddin when contacted said, they have godowns to store 12 thousand tones of fertilizer. But now they had been preserving at least 13 thousand tones there to meet the full demands of the farmers in the districts quick. This fertilizer is sold among the BCIC dealers of Jhenaidah, Chuadanga, Kushtia and Meherpur.
The godown in charge said, the cement hard fertilizers are not damaged at all. It became hard as they were stored for last couple of months that could not hamper any production in crop fields districts.
Some Anwar Hossain, a BCIC dealer in Kaliganj informed the number of BCIC dealers in four districts are 216 who have been selling the fertilizers to the farmers at the government fixed prices. About 100 trucks of fertilizer is supplied among the dealers a day, especially, in rice production seasons. A truck could carry 18 tones at time, he said.
The dealers said, the cement hard urea were stored in the buffer stocks for last two years which almost had lost its efficacy and quality in the mean time. But the godown authorities have been forcing them to receive the fertilizers from the old stocks.
The farmers in Jhenaidah have been compelled to use the cement hard fertilizers supplied through the dealers appointed by Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC). Each of the pieces of the coagulated fertilizer is five to six kilogram in weight.
The dealers have been blaming the buffer godowns authority in Kaliganj as they have been forcibly pushing the coagulated urea to the dealers.
Some BCIC dealers alleged that the buffer godown authority push at least 40 per cent of the allocated fertilizer with the normal urea. But they face troubles when the farmers buy the same from them. The coagulated balls might be broken in to smaller with bamboo made lathi or iron ones.
They said, thousands hundreds of tones of cement hard urea were lying unsold in the buffer godowns of the BCIC at Kaliganj. The matter was brought in to the notice of the BCIC authority time and again which could not produce any fruitful results, they said.
BCIC buffer godown in charge Jalal Uddin when contacted said, they have godowns to store 12 thousand tones of fertilizer. But now they had been preserving at least 13 thousand tones there to meet the full demands of the farmers in the districts quick. This fertilizer is sold among the BCIC dealers of Jhenaidah, Chuadanga, Kushtia and Meherpur.
The godown in charge said, the cement hard fertilizers are not damaged at all. It became hard as they were stored for last couple of months that could not hamper any production in crop fields districts.
Some Anwar Hossain, a BCIC dealer in Kaliganj informed the number of BCIC dealers in four districts are 216 who have been selling the fertilizers to the farmers at the government fixed prices. About 100 trucks of fertilizer is supplied among the dealers a day, especially, in rice production seasons. A truck could carry 18 tones at time, he said.
The dealers said, the cement hard urea were stored in the buffer stocks for last two years which almost had lost its efficacy and quality in the mean time. But the godown authorities have been forcing them to receive the fertilizers from the old stocks.
