- Sukhnandan appeals Nadda to intervene to expose PROM fertilizer supplier’s nexus
STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Alerting the Jammu and Kashmir farmers from being victim of fake an duplicate Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) PROM fertilizer, the using the former Minister and senior BJP leader Choudhary Sukhnandan Kumar on Monday accused the government of ignoring this serious issue which is related to the livelihood of these poor farmers in Jammu region. Addressing the media persons in Jammu, the Ex-BJP minister sought the intervention of J P Nadda, Union Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers, to issue instructions to fulfill the acute shortage of branded DAP fertilizer like IFFCO and IPL, so that the J&K farmers are saved from the cheating.
The Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) was very much needed during sowing period. Since for the last several years, the farmers in Jammu region are facing natural calamities like thunderstorms and heavy rains, now the UT government has created another trouble for them. “During the LG rule in J&K, we have never suffered such types of problems and in case of any issue, the things were resolved in days,” said Sukhnandan, the present government is totally ignorant of the farmers issues especially of the farmers of Jammu region. Now no one is here to listen to the plight of the farmers, said Sukhnandan.
Our Prime Minister Narendra Bhai Modi and LG Manoj Sinha have always supported farmers in J&K. However, this time, the sowing season will go waste as J&K government is totally ignorant of major trouble of this scarcity of DAP fertilizer.
The farmers here are facing hardships to get fertilizer during the sowing season “, said Sukhnandan Kumar adding that the government is deliberately showing shortage fertilizer because of hefty commission from other fertilizer companies which produce and manufacture the fertilizer in other states like Gujarat and Rajasthan .
The market is full of Prom fertilizer. It contains only 7.5 per cent phosphorus whereas in DAP fertilizer, the percentage must be above 46. I advice the farmers not to use this black PROM fertilizer, said Sukhnandan.
“There can be a nexus between the government, who may have been getting huge commission from the private fertilizer manufacturers,” the ex-minister Sukhnandan Kumar alleged, adding, “We are also seek the intervention of the LG Manoj Singh to assure the availability of quality DAP fertilizer at the time of its need.”