Fertiliser shortage
It is not only unfortunate but disgusting that every year we are facing a fertiliser crisis in Bangladesh. It seems that all the experts in this sector are only trying to solve the problem by importing various types of fertilisers. It may be noted that when someone uses chemical fertilisers on a regular basis, then the requirement of the same increases each time it is applied in the land. The organic matter of the soil is also affected.
The Ministry of Agriculture should encourage the farmers to use organic compost fertilisers and promote the use of vermin-compost to reduce the use of chemical fertilisers. At the moment one can use 25% compost fertilisers along with chemical fertilisers and slowly increase the proportion of using compost fertilisers.
We have more than 20,000 block supervisors and if they are instructed to produce 50MT of compost fertilisers each, we could produce 1,00,000 MT compost fertilisers in the very first year. If the farmers are satisfied with the yield, then its production can be increased in the future.
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