Parliament directs govt to make fertilizer easily available to farmers
The meeting on Monday unanimously passed a resolution of urgent public importance regarding chemical fertilizers.
KATHMANDU: The Federal Parliament’s House of Representatives has directed the government to make essential chemical fertilizers readily available to farmers.
The meeting on Monday unanimously passed a resolution of urgent public importance regarding chemical fertilizers, directing the government to take all possible measures to make the necessary chemical fertilizers easily accessible to farmers.
Speaker Agni Sapkota stated that serious attention has been drawn to the fact that chemical fertilizers are essential for increasing agricultural production and that chemical fertilizers are not available even when planting paddy, which is currently the major crop.
He directed the government to give priority to solving the problems of the agriculture sector which contributes 25 percent to the GDP.
Earlier in the meeting, Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development Mahendra Raya Yadav stated that the process of action had been accelerated by cancelling some people’s contracts for failing to deliver manure on time.
He emphasized the importance of changing the current tender process as bringing manure would take 226 days. He stated that efforts were being made to bring manure from India via the GTG process in order to end the manure shortage.
Minister Yadav also stated that sufficient manure would be delivered by the end of Ashar (June/July).
Minister Yadav also stated that the international manure shortage has impacted Nepal.
