{"id":170470,"date":"2020-04-28T15:46:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T15:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/?p=170470"},"modified":"2020-04-28T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T15:58:10","slug":"record-fertilizer-sales-lockdown-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/170470","title":{"rendered":"Record fertilizer sales during lockdown period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi, April 28 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; Amid National level covid -19 lockdown, Department of Fertilizers, <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169643 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Corona-Virus1.jpg\" alt=\"Corona Virus\" width=\"450\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Corona-Virus1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Corona-Virus1-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers has had a record sale of Fertilizers to farmer community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; During 1 &#8211; 22 April 2020 POP sale of fertilizers to&nbsp;farmers was 10.63 lakh MT which is 32 percent higher than the last year sale of 8.02 lakh MT during the same period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; During 1-22 April dealers purchased 15.77 lakh MT fertilizers which is 46 percent higher than last year sale of 10.79 lakh MT during the same period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Despite lot of movement restrictions due to National level COVID-19 lockdown, with the concerted efforts of Department of Fertilizers, Railways, States and Ports,&nbsp;production and supply of fertilizers in the country is going on without hindrance.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;This is in line with the commitment made by the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers&nbsp; to ensure availability of fertilizers to farmers for the upcoming Kharif season.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers, D.V Sadananda Gowda has said, there is no problem of Fertilizers. State Government has&nbsp;sufficient stock of the Fertilizers. He said we&nbsp; are in touch with State Agriculture Ministers.&nbsp;Gowda said his Ministry is committed to ensure availability of fertilizers to the farmer community before sowing time.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;On 17th April, 41 Fertilizer Rakes moved from plants &amp; ports. This is the highest movement of fertilizers during lockdown period in a day.&nbsp; One Rake carries 3000 MT of load at a time.&nbsp; Production in fertilizer companies is going on in full capacity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Government of India,&nbsp;Under Essential Commodities Act&nbsp;has allowed&nbsp;operation of fertilizers plants in the country so that agriculture sector may not feel the heat of lockdown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; As loading and unloading of fertilizers are in full swing at fertilizer plants, railway stations and ports, no compromise is made with precautions to avoid COVID-19. Masks and all other preventive equipments are provided to labours and all other working staff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; New Delhi, April 28 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; Amid National level covid -19 lockdown, Department of Fertilizers, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers has had a record sale of Fertilizers to farmer community. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; During 1 &#8211; 22 April 2020 POP sale of fertilizers to&nbsp;farmers was 10.63 lakh &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-english"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Record fertilizer sales during lockdown period | Punjab Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/170470\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Record fertilizer sales during lockdown period | Punjab Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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