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 11pm with the coordination of the officials of the 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 Sunday.
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 stocked at the silos against the country’s demand.
There are 656,000 mts of urea fertilizer, 394,000 tons of TSP fertilizer, 823,000 tons of DAP fertilizer in stock, it said.
Besides, there is a demand for 619,000 of urea, 119,000 lakh tons of TSP, 225,000 tons of DAP and 137,000 tons of MoP fertilizer during the Aman season.
