Jhenaidfah Correspondent :
The delivery of fertilizer to the buffer stores of Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) at Kaliganj in Jhenaidah has been suspended when huge shortage was proved in each of the sachets loading on the trucks in the godown. The shortage might be three to four kilogram in each 50 kilogram sachets, alleged the fertilizer dealers.
The dealers said, 300 tones of fertilizer on 300 trucks from Noapara in Jessore entered in to the buffer godowns at Kaliganj town on Friday night. Of them each of the plastic sachet contains 46 to 47 kilogramn as against scheduled 50 kilograms.
Jhenaidah fertilizer dealers association president Jahangir Hossain said, Nabab Ali and Company at Agrabad in Chittagong sent the urea laden trucks. The quality of the fertilizer was lost as they were dumped at the river ghat of the port there. The BCIC dealers had decided not to take delivery of the damaged and shortage as it might affect the farmers. Further, it will also cause financial loss to the traders, Jahangir said.
Some of the drivers carrying the fertilizer with a huge shortage in each 50 kilogram sachet when asked said, they were not concerned about the shortage in any bag.
They have been lying idle at Kaliganj for last five daays as the delivery of the sachets from any truck was suspended for an indefinite time, they said.
Deputy Manager of the BCIC buffer store at Kaliganj Masud Rana when contacted said, they had proved the shortage of 3 to 4 kilograms in each of the sachets that the trucks were carrying.
Upazila nirbahi officer of Kaliganj Manwar Hossain Mollah when contacted said, they could not allow the shortage in each sachet of the urea as it might affect both the dealers and farmers. If the shortage was not met, they will have no alternatives to send the trucks back, UNO said.
The delivery of fertilizer to the buffer stores of Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) at Kaliganj in Jhenaidah has been suspended when huge shortage was proved in each of the sachets loading on the trucks in the godown. The shortage might be three to four kilogram in each 50 kilogram sachets, alleged the fertilizer dealers.
The dealers said, 300 tones of fertilizer on 300 trucks from Noapara in Jessore entered in to the buffer godowns at Kaliganj town on Friday night. Of them each of the plastic sachet contains 46 to 47 kilogramn as against scheduled 50 kilograms.
Jhenaidah fertilizer dealers association president Jahangir Hossain said, Nabab Ali and Company at Agrabad in Chittagong sent the urea laden trucks. The quality of the fertilizer was lost as they were dumped at the river ghat of the port there. The BCIC dealers had decided not to take delivery of the damaged and shortage as it might affect the farmers. Further, it will also cause financial loss to the traders, Jahangir said.
Some of the drivers carrying the fertilizer with a huge shortage in each 50 kilogram sachet when asked said, they were not concerned about the shortage in any bag.
They have been lying idle at Kaliganj for last five daays as the delivery of the sachets from any truck was suspended for an indefinite time, they said.
Deputy Manager of the BCIC buffer store at Kaliganj Masud Rana when contacted said, they had proved the shortage of 3 to 4 kilograms in each of the sachets that the trucks were carrying.
Upazila nirbahi officer of Kaliganj Manwar Hossain Mollah when contacted said, they could not allow the shortage in each sachet of the urea as it might affect both the dealers and farmers. If the shortage was not met, they will have no alternatives to send the trucks back, UNO said.
