Shortage of DAP continues to hound farmers in several dists

Farmers continue to face harassment of standing in long queues even without certainty of getting the stock of DAP in various districts of the state today. They alleged that the authorities concerned were unable to provide the fertiliser even as there has been an urgent need for it in the fields.

In Hisar, farmers standing in queue at the shop in the grain market said they had been making rounds of shops to get the quota of fertiliser. Even government officials and agriculture scientists of the Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agriculture University have been flooded with the phone calls by the farmers to request them to arrange the quota of fertilisers for the last many days.

Jai Prakash, a resident of Juglan village in the district said he came to the grain market early today to procure the DAP bags. But after standing in the queue till 3 pm, he could not get the fertiliser. “Now I have been told to come again tomorrow. I am busy in the fields these days and it is not difficult to leave my unfinished works in the field and make rounds of Hisar town just for the DAP,” he said.

Another farmer of Dobi village, Sher Singh, said after a day-long struggle, he had procured five bags of DAP. “But I need 10 bags,” he said. Meanwhile, officials said another stock of 1,500 bags of DAP was supplied to Hisar district today. Officials said DAP was being supplied regularly.