Bihar is a state which is witness to large scale hoarding, black-marketing and smuggling of fertilizers. The State Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has urged the center to ensure the availability of fertilizers in the state.
Nitish called the Union Minister of State for Chemicals and fertilizers informing him of an acute shortage of urea in particular in Bihar.
Sources say the shortage counts 1.96 lakh metric tonnes of urea this year. While Bihar needs 7.90 lakh metric tonnes altogether, it has so far been supplied with only 5.94 lakh metric tonnes.
Bihar chief minister is taking personal interest in the matter and has instructed his officials to ensure farmers experience no difficulty procuring the fertilizer.