Farmers form serpentine queues as urea shortage hits Telangana’s Sircilla

Seven truckloads of urea required to fulfil demand, but only three have arrived in the district so far

Rajanna-Sircilla: A shortfall in the supply of urea forced farmers to stand in serpentine queues at Veernapalli on Saturday.

Farmers from different villages had to wait in queue at the gram panchayat office for hours together for their turn.

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Besides Veernapalli, farmers from Bhukyanaik thanda, Babai thanda and Bavsingh thanda were also in queue.

Seven truckloads of urea are required to fulfil the needs of all the farmers, but only three truckloads have arrived so far. Agriculture officials gave three bags of urea to each farmer.

Agriculture officer Jaya said out of seven truckloads of urea required, only three had arrived so far and claimed that the remaining would be available soon.

They were supplying the available urea equally to all the farmers, she said.