Sowing on, Haryana farmers panic over DAP shortage; police roped in

At Gohana successful Haryana’s Sonipat territory and Narnaul successful Mahendragarh, DAP bags were sold successful the beingness of constabulary personnel. In Uchana successful Jind connected October 26, a husbandman receivedminor injuries arsenic constabulary tried to power an unruly assemblage that had gathered astatine the section cooperative nine bureau to bargain the fertiliser.

At Tosham constabulary presumption successful Bhiwani district, constabulary took implicit the process, handing implicit slips to farmers that they could speech for DAP bags. On Sunday, hundreds of farmers, galore of them women, stood successful agelong queues extracurricular the Tosham constabulary station, waiting for the slips.

Dayanand Poonia, a husbandman activistic from Bhiwani, told The Indian Express that farmers from astir 12 villages received accusation connected Sunday greeting that 1,500 DAP bags had arrived astatine the Primary Agriculture Cooperative Society successful Pataudi village. The farmers were told to cod their slips from the Tosham constabulary station, 23 km away.

Sher Singh, 70, from Rodan village, was among those who collected his gaffe from the constabulary station. “I had gone to the cooperative bureau successful Pataudi connected Saturday, but determination were truthful galore radical I decided to instrumentality the pursuing morning. The adjacent day, I reached Pataudi astatine 6 am, but again, the crowds were unmanageable. Finally, we were asked to travel to the Tosham constabulary station. We were pushed astir determination too, but I yet got my slip.”

Agriculture Department Sub Divisional Officer (Bhiwani) Sanjay Kumar said, “There were much farmers than DAP bags astatine Pataudi. First, we called the constabulary determination but they could not power the crowd. We thought a scuffle whitethorn interruption out, truthful we decided to contented slips from the constabulary station.”

Farmers typically request 1 50-kg container of DAP for each acre of mustard and wheat sown, with this going up to 3 bags successful the lawsuit of potato. Mustard and murphy planting usually happens successful October, with wheat pursuing successful November.

The existent shortage of DAP is being blamed connected higher planetary prices, aggravated by the authorities fixing a debased MRP with inadequate subsidy concession that has made imports unviable.

At the existent MRP of Rs 1,350 per container (Rs 27,000 per tonne) and subsidy of Rs 21,911, the gross realisation for companies comes to Rs 48,911 per tonne. On the different hand, the landed terms of DAP imports is present astatine $642-644 per tonne oregon Rs 53,930-54,100. Adding import duty, bagging, larboard handling, involvement and trader margins, the outgo goes up to astir Rs 65,000 per tonne. The resultant loss-making proposition has meant that lone 19.67 lakh tonnes of the fertiliser got imported during April-September 2024, compared to 34.53 lakh tonnes successful April-September 2023.

Admitting to shortage of DAP, Rajbir Singh, Deputy Director, Haryana Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Department, said, “For example, Hisar territory has received a proviso of lone 8,000 MT DAP fertiliser truthful acold against the request of 25,000 MT. We are expecting a proviso of much DAP bags successful the coming days.”

Poonia said that portion it’s farmers successful the mustard increasing districts of Haryana who are hopeless for DAP, the shortage is apt to worsen erstwhile the wheat sowing play starts from Diwali.

“Sowing for mustard is connected successful Dadri, Narnaul, Bhiwani, Rewari and Hisar and farmers present are not getting capable DAP. If the proviso of DAP is not increased, the situation volition worsen due to the fact that aft November 15, farmers successful wheat increasing areas would besides articulation the queue for the fertiliser,” added Poonia.

Admitting to the acute shortage of DAP, a elder BJP person who spoke connected information of anonymity said farmers successful the authorities indispensable get capable allocation of DAP and the question and stocks of the fertiliser request to beryllium checked to guarantee uninterrupted supply.