STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: In view of ensuing Rabi Season and prepositioning of fertilizers for application in Rabi crops as well as orchards in Kashmir Valley, a review meeting was held on Tuesday at Krishi Bhawan, Talab Tillo, under the chairmanship of The Controller of Fertilizers for J & K and Ladakh UTs/ Director of Agriculture Production & Farmers’ Welfare, Jammu, K. K. Sharma.
The Director Agriculture said exhorted upon the fertilizer supplying companies and officers of the Agriculture for liquidation of all pending stocks held in PoS machines and stressed on use of RO module/PoS machine on real-time bases to facilitate cashless sale of fertilizers to the farmers. Taking note of some irregularities, the Controller Fertilizers instructed the enforcement agency of the department to stay vigilant against black marketing and hoarding of fertilizer by some dealers. He also directed them to ensure the quality of PROM (phosphate-rich organic manure) and other organic manures through random sampling and testing. He also exhorted upon the fertilizer companies to maintain sufficient stock of Single Super Phosphate (SSP) and NPK fertilizer as substitute of DAP. As Fertilizer is the main input for agricultural and horticultural crops, so any lacuna from any quarters is unacceptable in timely stocking/supply of the fertilizer in the UT, he said.
He informed that opening of Model Fertilizer Retail Shop initially in every district will provide the farmers easy access to fertilizer, seed, pesticides & machinery under one roof.
Joint Director (Extension), Subash Chander Sharma, Assistant Director Law Enforcement, Tilak Raj Sharma, SMS, Santosh Kumar Bhat, AEO, Neeru Mahajan besides Coordinator DBT J&K, AkhilVaid, UT Head IFFCO, Joginder Paul , UT Head National Fertilizers Ltd. (NFL), Prem Lal, UT Head Chambal Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd (CFCL), Rahul Khatkar were also present on the occasion.
