State Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Farmers Empowerment Minister Arun Sahoo has written to Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers DV Sadananda Gowda in this regard.
The Department of Fertilisers has supplied adequate quantity of Fertilizers to the State as per the allocation in the month of April-2021. However, in the months of May and June-2021, there is a short supply of different fertilisers to the State against the monthly allocation, Sahoo said in his letter. During May 2021, he said, only 34,340 metric tonne of urea has been supplied to Odisha against the monthly allocation of 48,950 MT. Also during the current June, only 18,690 MT of urea has been supplied against the monthly allocation of 70,830 MT as on June 18.
Similarly, during May and June-2021, only 37,519 MT of DAP, 8,803 MT of MOP and 46,902 MT of NPK have been supplied to the State against the allocation of 82,000 MT of DAP, 28,900 MT of MOP and 81,600 MT of NPK. During last Kharif, the State had experienced scarcity of urea due to short supply of 45,000 MT of urea as a result there was a law and order situation in most of district of State.