Agriculture Minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid on Tuesday said that Bangladesh currently has sufficient stocks of urea fertilizer, with no expected shortage until June or July.
In addition, the government is also taking proactive measures to expedite fertilizer imports from abroad.
Responding to a question from Member of the Parliament Barrister Rumeen Farhana, the minister said, “Our current stock of urea fertilizer is sufficient to meet demand until mid-June or July without difficulty. We primarily import fertilizers from Qatar and Saudi Arabia. An adviser of the prime minister has already been sent to Qatar, and productive discussions on imports are underway.”
Regarding the impact of global developments on fertilizer supply, he added, “Although the ongoing war has caused some complications, our tanker has already been dispatched, and we expect the fertilizer shipments to arrive soon. Therefore, there should be no major problems regarding fertilizer supply.”
On private-sector fertilizer imports, Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid critiqued previous government policies. “As a farmer myself, I observed that the earlier government encouraged more private-sector imports, whereas imports were traditionally conducted under a government-to-government (G2G) arrangement. We are now reviewing private-sector imports to ensure the approach benefits farmers most and is economically advantageous for the country,” he said.
