The government has opened a control room to monitor the fertilizer situation of the country, according to the Agriculture Ministry.
The control room will be kept open from 8am to 11 pm with the coordination of the officials of Agriculture Ministry and the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), said a handout of the ministry.
People have been asked to contact the control room in need which comes into effect from today.
The ministry also disclosed the cell phone numbers of Deputy Chief of the Ministry Badiul Alam—01713593487, Research official M Nurunnabi—01716462277, deputy director of DAE (fertilizer) Aminul Islam-01724245354 and additional deputy director Khandaker Rashed Iftekhar-01814947054.
According to the ministry, plenty of fertilizer was stock at the silos against the country’s demand.
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There are 6.56lakh mts of urea fertilizer, 3.94 lakh tonnes of TSP fertilizer, 8.23 lakh tonnes of DAP fertilizer in stock, it said.
Besides, there is a demand of 6.19 lakh of urea, 1.19 lakh tonnes of TSP, 2.25 lakh tonnes of DAP and 1.37 lakh tonnes of MoP fertilizer during the Aman season.
Source: United News of Bangladesh