SAS Nagar, November 5, 2024 (Yes Punjab News)
Taking a serious view of the Hoarding, overcharging or tagging of other agricultural inputs with DAP fertilizer, the Deputy Commissioner, Mrs Aashika Jain has directed the Chief Agricultural Officer of the district to inspect the stocks of the agriculture input dealers in SAS Nagar district.
Taking a review meeting with the ADC Sonam Chaudhary, Chief Agricultural Officer (CAO), Dr Gurmail Singh and Deputy Registrar (DR) Cooperative Societies, Gurbir Singh Dhillon, today morning at the DC office, Deputy Commissioner Mrs Aashika Jain asked the CAO and DR to make it mandatory to display the stock of fertilizers available with the dealers and cooperative societies on notice board daily.
Besides, the farmers should not be overcharged for the sale of DAP or tagging of other inputs with the sale of DAP. She said the Agriculture Officials to make teams with district administrative officials for the inspection of the fertilizer dealers.
The Deputy Commissioner said that the SAS Nagar District has an alternate fertilizers stock of 3033 MT and the farmers need not worry. They can use the alternate of DAP such as NPK (12:32:16, 15:15:15, 20:20:0:13, 16:16:16), SSP (Single Super Phosphate), TSP (Triple Super Phosphate) available with the district.
She said that per the advisory of the soil scientists of the Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, DAP contains a mixture of 46 per cent Phosphorus and 18 Percent Nitrogen. He said that Single Superphosphate contains 16% phosphorus. Farmers can use three bags of this fertilizer in place of one bag of DAP.
Additionally, it provides extra sulphur. Similarly, NPK 12:32:16 contains 32% phosphorus. The one-and-a-half bags of NPK 12:32:16 are equivalent to one bag of DAP. This offers the added advantage of potash, which is not present in DAP.
She further said that as per the advisory, Triple Superphosphate contains 46% phosphorus and can be used in equal quantity to DAP, providing additional sulfur benefits, while NPK 10:26:26 contains 26% of total phosphorus and can also fulfil crops’ phosphorus requirements. This also offers the added advantage of potash, which is not present in DAP.
The Deputy Commissioner reassured the farmers not to worry about the alleged DAP “shortage”, emphasizing that these effective and readily available alternatives can be used successfully.
