Meets Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare and Chemicals and Fertilizers, Mansukh L Mandaviya
The Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan recently met the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare and Chemicals and Fertilizers, Mansukh L Mandaviya in his office and discussed in detail the demand for urea and DAP in the state.
The Chief Minister informed that paddy plantation work is in progress in the state, for which the demand for DAP has increased in the state. Along with this, top dressing of urea is being done in maize and paddy, due to which the demand for urea has also increased. Chouhan further informed that against the demand of 12.13 lakh metric tonnes for allocation of urea by the Centre till now, only 8 lakh metric tonnes have been given by the Center to the state. Similarly, the allocation of DAP has been provided only 5 lakh MT against 8.05 lakh MT. Chouhan has requested that the remaining 4.13 lakh metric tonnes of urea and the remaining 3.05 lakh metric tonnes of DAP should be released by the Centre soon.
Apart from this, at the suggestion of the Union Minister, the Chief Minister talked about implementing the e-rupee voucher scheme issued by the Centre on the lines of a pilot project in Madhya Pradesh for fertilisers in one district. Apart from this, along with NPK and SSP fertilisers, he also talked about promoting nano urea in the agriculture sector. Along with this, the Chief Minister said that his ministers, MPs, MLAs, and progressive farmers would use it in their respective fields and would encourage the farmers to follow it.
