Suspension Of Items Trains To Hit Sowing Of Plants In Punjab: File

Chandigarh:

The suspension of freight trains in Punjab has brought about acute scarcity of urea for wheat and vegetable plants in Punjab, with the state government announcing rabi crop sowing might be hit on account of it.

Farmers require urea, a key fertiliser for rabi plants, and DAP (diammonium phosphate) for sowing wheat and different vegetable plants like potato, an legit of the state agriculture division stated.

“There’s a scarcity of urea within the state,” some other senior legit of the dep. stated on Sunday.

In step with the officers, Punjab wishes 14.50 lakh tonnes of urea for the rabi season, however handiest about 75,000 tonnes is to be had within the state.

They stated four lakh tonnes of urea was once intended to reach within the month of October, however only one lakh tonnes was once won.

For November, the state has an allocation of four lakh tonnes of urea. Wheat sowing season will get started in November. It’s anticipated to be cultivated in about 35 lakh hectare house within the state right through the rabi season.

“Urea is basically required on the time of first irrigation of wheat within the first week of December,” one of the crucial officers stated, including that round 6.45 lakh tonnes of urea is needed right through December by myself. It’s also required for potatoes and different greens plants, the officers stated.

Urea is coming via vehicles from Ambala and Dabwali, however it raises transportation price considerably, they added.

“The crop yield can be hit if good enough dose of urea isn’t given to plants,” they stated.

Punjab will get urea provides via trains from Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and different states.

Railways has suspended items teach products and services in Punjab following blockade of a few rail tracks by means of farmers protesting over Centre’s new farm regulations.

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal had sought Punjab executive’s assurance for protection of trains and workforce individuals to revive freight products and services, after Leader Minister Amarinder Singh requested him to intrude to renew the products and services.

Items teach products and services had previous resumed within the state after farmer unions on October 21 introduced exempting them from their weeks-old “rail roko” agitation over the Centre’s new farm regulations.

Alternatively, the railways later suspended items teach operations, announcing protesting farmers had been nonetheless blocking off the tracks.

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