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No Space In Godowns

Huge fertiliser under open sky in Gaibandha

16 February 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Gaibandha

Huge fertiliser stacked up under open sky in front of Dhanghara godown at Gaibandha for lack of space. Photo: STAR

Urea fertiliser supplied to Gaibandha district in the current Boro season is being piled up under the open sky as the fertiliser go-downs in the district with a total of 2000-tonne capacity fail to accommodate them. Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) has allocated 34,399 tonnes of fertiliser for seven upazilas in Gaibandha district and 11,852 tonnes of fertiliser reached the district till February 15, said sources at district fertiliser monitoring committee. This season one lakh 12 thousand 645 hectares of land in Gaibandha district have been brought under Boro cultivation, said Mizanur Rahman Mizan, deputy director of Department of Agriculture Extension in the district. Now defunct Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC) handed over five fertiliser godowns with 2,500-tonne capacity to district food control department in 1992 but they have remained virtually unutilised for various reasons. BCIC has allocated 9,590 tonnes of fertiliser for January, 14,974 tonnes for February and 9,862 tonnes for the month of March to meet up the requirement of Boro cultivation in the district. Local fertiliser dealers of Gaibandha could not carry allocated 2,500 tonnes of fertiliser from Jamuna fertiliser factory as Railway Marine Department has suspended goods wagon services between Balashi and Bahadurabad ghat due to navigation problem in the Jamuna River that sees serious decrease in water level in the dry season. River route between Balashi and Bahadurabad is the easiest and cheapest way for carrying fertiliser from Jamuna fertiliser factory to Gaibandha, said Abdul Latif Hakkani, president of Gaibandha district fertiliser dealer's association.