Fertiliser stock is more than Requirement: Geeteara

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Adviser for Industries Geeteara Safiya Chowdhury Thursday said the fertiliser stock in the country is more than requirement to meet the demand during this year's Aman season, reports BSS.
"There is no fertiliser crisis in the country at all now. The government is fully aware of the farmers' demand and determined to ensure proper distribution of fertiliser among them," she told the news agency at her office in the Ministry of Industries.
Besides, she said, the present government is contemplating establishment of new urea fertiliser factories in the country to increase production and fulfill the farmers' demand.
To raise productivity in the agriculture sector, Geeteara Safiya Chowdhury said the government would also carry out BMRE (Balancing, Modernisation, Rehabilitation and Expansion) in all fertiliser factories of the country.
"The BMRE will be done as the existing fertiliser factories are now very old with most of them built at least 26 years back," she said adding that import of fertiliser would continue on a routine basis.
In view of all these plans and programmes of the government, the Adviser assured that there would be no crisis of fertiliser in the country as both Industries and Agriculture ministries along with members of the joint force have been monitoring distribution of fertiliser throughout the country.
For the first time, she said, the government has conducted a field level survey to asses the real demand for fertiliser. "But it should be realised that the situation would not improve overnight," she also said.