27 October, Kathmandu. CG Agra Company under Chowdhary Group has started selling various types of Urea Bag Fertilizers in Nepalese market. Organizing an event on Sunday, CG Agra has announced that it has introduced a small urea fertilizer named CG IFFCO. Former Union Railway Minister of India Suresh Prabhu and Chowdhury Group Managing Director Nirvana Choudhary announced that the fertilizer has been introduced in the Nepalese market.
The fertilizer sold by CG Agra is produced by the Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative Limited. CG Agri claims that by mixing this manure with water and sprinkling it on the leaves of plants, the shortage of chemical fertilizers in Nepal will be overcome.
According to the company, this fertilizer is equivalent to 500 ml urea fertilizer which is traditionally used. The company claims that such a fertilizer, which can be spread through a spray or a drain, is cheaper than granulated urea. It is claimed that the use of urea will increase the productivity of the land and fertilizer will be applied at the right place. After the fertilizer shortage in Nepal reached its peak last February, the government allowed the use of various fertilisers.
It was found to be very effective in trials conducted by the Council of Agricultural Research (NARC) last year on the use of various fertilizers. In the experiments done by the scientists of Narak in local Japu Kauli, the total cost of this fertilizer was found to be 8 thousand 150 rupees per hectare cheaper than other fertilizers. Nark claims that Jhol is more effective in terms of production.
In the tests conducted by NARC, it has been found that by using Jhol fertilizer, 4.67 MT per hectare is more produced. According to Narak, it is said that a sack of urea fertilizer, equivalent to half a liter, costs Rs 250. Now the cost of one bag of urea fertilizer is Rs 750. The company claims that the per liter price of various urea fertilizers in the Nepalese market ranges from Rs 5000 to 600 per liter and it is five times cheaper than grain urea.
Last year, two companies had applied to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development seeking permission to import a fertilizer that is widely used in markets including India, but the government did not grant permission due to lack of legislation. Earlier in Nepal, some amount of this fertilizer was secretly used by the tea farmers of Nepal. With the new permission of Jhol Urea, the number of fertilizers allowed to import chemical fertilizers in Nepal has reached 53.