Farmers reject subsidized fertilizer

  Parasi, Dec 23: The farmers in Nawalparasi district have returned the subsidized chemical fertilizer they were distributed reasoning it was not standard.

            The farmers complained that the government subsidized fertilizer they received through the district cooperatives office was nonstandard.

            The Bhairahawa Regional Office of Agriculture Inputs Company took the samples from the sacks of 50-kg urea and found full of dust when examined.

            Manager at the Adarsha Multiple Cooperatives Office, in the district, Sanjay Singh, said the urea was found nonstandard, so it was returned to the place of manufacture. RSS