Farmers may face a setback in fertiliser distribution as Bangladesh Fertiliser Association yesterday said it would go for an indefinite strike if the government fails to meet its demands.
BFA, which commands over 5,000 authorised chemical fertiliser dealers, has long been demanding removal of the price disparity in urea delivered from mill gates and buffer warehouses. In addition, the association also wants the unauthorised distribution of fertiliser by the seed dealers to stop.
“If the government does not meet our demands in the next 15 days, we will have no option but to stop lifting of all kinds of fertilisers from factories, buffer godowns and other private entities and distributing those among farmers for an indefinite period of time,” said BFA Chairman Kamrul Ashraf Khan.
He was speaking at a press meet yesterday at the association’s office in Dhaka.
At present, dealers from 37 districts are hauling urea at Tk 735 per 50-kilogram sack from the buffer warehouses, while dealers in 27 other districts are doing the same at Tk 700 from the mill gates.
The government only has six fertiliser factories all over the country and none of them are in the 16 northern districts, the rice-rich region, he added.
Urea constitutes a major por-
tion of chemical fertilisers that farmers apply to rice—both in the rainy-season for Aman and dry-season
for Boro.
BFA, which commands over 5,000 authorised chemical fertiliser dealers, has long been demanding removal of the price disparity in urea delivered from mill gates and buffer warehouses. In addition, the association also wants the unauthorised distribution of fertiliser by the seed dealers to stop.
“If the government does not meet our demands in the next 15 days, we will have no option but to stop lifting of all kinds of fertilisers from factories, buffer godowns and other private entities and distributing those among farmers for an indefinite period of time,” said BFA Chairman Kamrul Ashraf Khan.
He was speaking at a press meet yesterday at the association’s office in Dhaka.
At present, dealers from 37 districts are hauling urea at Tk 735 per 50-kilogram sack from the buffer warehouses, while dealers in 27 other districts are doing the same at Tk 700 from the mill gates.
The government only has six fertiliser factories all over the country and none of them are in the 16 northern districts, the rice-rich region, he added.
Urea constitutes a major por-
tion of chemical fertilisers that farmers apply to rice—both in the rainy-season for Aman and dry-season
for Boro.
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