3 years ago
The government has issued guidelines on ‘Manure distribution management 2077’ to manage the shortage of manure, supply and distribution system.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development has brought this guideline to make the supply and sale of subsidized fertilizers easy, transparent and effective according to the federal, state and local level structures. The directive, prepared by the ministry, was approved and issued by the cabinet office last week.
According to Hari Bahadur KC, joint secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, the government has for the first time setup various committees to determine the supply, distribution system and price of manure through the directive.
In order to manage the overall condition of manure, a five-member management committee will be formed at the central level under the coordination of the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development and a five-member technical committee under the coordination of the joint secretary.
Similarly, a directive has been made to form a six-member provincial manure distribution management committee and a local committee under the coordination of the secretary of the provincial agriculture ministry to make the supply and distribution system effective at the local level.
Each local level has made arrangements to send the list of required types of fertilizer to the provincial committee by mid-Magh of each fiscal year.
On the basis of this, the provincial committee has made arrangements to disclose the type and quantity of manure required for the fiscal year at the local level and send it to the manure supply and distribution management committee by mid-Falgun of each year.
The Manure Supply and Distribution Management Committee has to determine the type and quantity of manure demanded from the Provincial Committee by mid-Jestha of each year and the type and quantity of manure that can be made available in the grant for the coming Fiscal Year on the basis of government budget and grant policy.
The Manure Supply and Distribution Management Committee has to determine the amount of buffer stock for the coming fiscal year and the quota of manure for the provinces by mid-June every year on the basis of the prescribed quantity.
Under the prescribed quota, the provincial committee will have to determine the quota of manure for the local level within the province by Asar 15. The provincial committee will not be allowed to keep manure as buffer stock from the quota received for its province.
If the quantity of manure prescribed for the province is not consumed, the quota may be increased for another province where manure is required.
Not allowed to give additional grants and subsides
The state government and the local level cannot give additional subsidy on the price of fertilizer received from the central government. However, they will be able to provide subsidy for locally produced organic and bacterial manure.
Additional seller arrangements
The government will be able to appoint business firms and companies besides cooperatives for sale of fertilizers within the policy through the directive. Provision has been made for the seller to renew the certificate of appointment every year.
The seller should make a daily list and make it available to the concerned body.
The seller should mention the name of the seller, cooperative, firm or company, scope of work, sale price of the fertilizer to be given in the grant and keep it visible to all. However, provision has been made not to sell in any other way except subsidized manure.
Dismissal of Seller Permit
Through the directive, the government has decided to revoke the certificates of vendors involved in black market, excessive price collection and banned such cooperatives, firms or companies from being vendors for three years.
Sale price of manure
The Fertilizer Supply and Distribution Management Committee will determine the selling price of the fertilizer import point on the basis of the border market price of the neighboring country and will fix the price in such a way that there is no deviation in the border.
The selling price will be maintained by adding the transportation fare required for the supply from the import point to the sales office.
At the local level, the local committee will determine the selling price of the fertilizer. An arrangement has been made not to sell manure from the office of a manure distribution company within one state to another state.
Salt Trading’s urea has arrived
Salt Trading Corporation has started supplying urea fertilizer. Salt has started bringing 32,100 tonnes of urea manure. According to Kumar Raj Bhandari, co-general manager of the corporation, the corporation has started supplying urea along with the remaining quota of last year.
Of this, 2,500 tonnes arrived at the dry port of Birgunj on Tuesday. Similarly, 2,500 tonnes have already left Kolkata port for Birgunj on Wednesday. Similarly, 864 tonnes of urea has reached Biratnagar by road.
The corporation has stated that the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development has not yet given permission to open tender in the second quarter of the current fiscal year and even the fund of the first quarter has not been released.
Bhandari said that the time for procurement and transportation of manure will be affected as the tender has not been issued so far in the old quarter and in the second quarter.
