Long queues for urea become routine in Adilabad

Farmers across Adilabad, Mancherial, Kumram Bheem Asifabad and Nirmal districts queued for hours to buy urea, with protests and local tensions highlighting the ongoing fertiliser shortage

Adilabad: Farmers continued to form long queues to buy urea across the erstwhile Adilabad district on Monday, highlighting the deepening fertiliser shortage.

Men and women waited for hours at Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS), District Cooperative Marketing Societies (DCMS), agro centres and Hyderabad Agriculture Cooperative Society (HACA) outlets in Mancherial, Kumram Bheem Asifabad, Adilabad and Nirmal districts.

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At Gudipet village in Hajipur mandal, as well as Dandepalli, Luxettipet and Kotapalli mandal headquarters of Mancherial district, women were seen standing in serpentine queues. In Luxettipet, BRS activists blocked traffic demanding urea supply but withdrew their protest after officials assured them of adequate stocks.

Similar scenes played out at Rebbena, Jambuga in Kagaznagar, Tiryani, Bejjur and Chintalamanepalli of Kumram Bheem Asifabad district. Farmers at Raspelli intercepted a lorry carrying urea bags to Girivelli and insisted the fertiliser be distributed locally. They relented after officials promised to resolve the problem.

Farmers in parts of Adilabad and Nirmal districts also reported waiting long hours at societies and centres with no guarantee of supply.