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<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">As per the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, a meeting of the Fertilizer Supply and Distribution Management Committee held on Monday decided to reduce the subsidy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A press statement issued by the ministry reads, "The subsidy provided to farmers fopr the purchase of chemical fertilizer has now been reduced to 59.04 per cent against 70.82 per cent. It will be lowered to 50 per cent gradually." </span><br />
<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">With this decision of the government, the price of the chemical fertilizer would increase. Now, Urea would be sold at Rs 25 per kg, DAP at Rs 50 per kg and potassium at Rs 40 per kg. Earlier, urea was sold at Rs 14 per kg, DAP at Rs 43 per kg and potassium at Rs 31 per kg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Prior to this, the government had been providing 80 per cent subsidy for urea, 60 per cent for DAP and 59 per cent for potassium. </span><br />
<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the ministry, the decision to reduce the subsidy on chemical fertilizer was taken upon the instruction from the Finance Ministry. Nepal needs 520,000 metric tonnes of chemical fertilizer every year, added the ministry. </span><br />
<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">A total of Rs 15 million budget was allocated in the fiscal year 2022/23 to provide subsidy to farmers for purchasing fertilizer. A total of 331,500 metric tonnes of chemical fertilizer has been purchased through the Agriculture Inputs Company Limited and Salt Trading Corporation so far. </span><br />
<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Of the purchased fertilizer, around 237,500 metric tonnes of fertilizer has already been imported while 94,000 metric tonnes of fertilizer is in the process of being imported. </span><br />
<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">According to the ministry, there is likely to be a deficit of 90,000 metric tonnes of chemical fertilizer for paddy this year. -- RSS</span></span></span><br />
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