Kathmandu, July 1
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Environment has made preparations to import around 210,000 metric tonnes of chemical fertiliser by mid-August. The Ministry has forwarded a process to import such a quantity of chemical fertiliser through different media to ensure supply of the fertiliser required for paddy crop.
Thirty thousand metric tonnes of urea to be brought from India under a government-to-government (G2G) agreement would arrive in Nepal in the first week of August. Out of 180,000 metric tonnes of chemical fertiliser to be imported through a global tender with different countries, 60,000 metric tonnes is DAP fertiliser and 120,000 metric tonnes is urea fertiliser.
The Ministry has set a target of importing the highest amount of chemical fertiliser so far this year. The Ministry has also made arrangements for registering complaints through the hotline number 9700099113 and a QR code from 7 am to 7 pm if black marketing or irregularities of chemical fertiliser in local-level is found taken place.
