Bangalore, April 26: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today appealed to the Centre to ensure adequate supply of DAP fertilizer during the Kharif season this year like in 2010-11.
Noting that Centre had allocated 6.15 lakh tonnes of DAP, 2.90 lakh tonnes of MOP, 6.30 lakh tonnes of NPK and eight lakh tonnes of urea for Karnataka during Kharif 2011, he said it had been observed in past 3-4 months that supply has not been as per allocation, specially in respect of DAP.
“If the farmers are not supplied the required quantity of DAP in time, it will create panic among them and may leads to law and order problems in the state,” he said in letters to Union Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister M K Alagiri and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar.
Yeddyurappa said farmers of Mysore, Chamarajanagar, Hassan, Chickmagalur, Dharwad, Bijapur, Belgaum and Haveri districts take up sowing activities very early following pre-monsoon rains and hence requirement of fertilizers specially the DAP was more right from April.
The state Chief Secretary had written a letter on April 8 to Fertilizers Secretary seeking his intervention for allocating DAP requirement from indigenous production.
Thanking the Centre for timely supply of fertilizers last year, he urged the ministers to ensure similar action this season also.
In another letter addressed to Union Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation M S Gill, Yeddyurappa said he was delighted to learn that the allocation under the MPLAD scheme to the members of Parliament had been increased from Rs two crore to Rs five crore per annum.
——–PTI