Nama Nageswara Rao urges Telangana govt to ensure urea supply

Former MP Nama Nageswara Rao urged the Telangana government to ensure adequate urea supply, citing shortages troubling farmers. He demanded strict action against black marketing. Farmers and Rythu Sangham leaders staged protests seeking more urea supply centres under Gopavaram PACS

Khammam: Former MP Nama Nageswara Rao has urged the State government to ensure adequate urea stocks in Telangana so that farmers receive timely supplies.

He said farmers were troubled by a shortage of fertilisers, a situation that never occurred during the ten-year rule of former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, who had taken proactive steps to ensure uninterrupted supply.

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Currently, farmers were being forced to wait in long queues across villages for fertilisers. Nama urged the government to curb malpractices, including traders selling urea at inflated prices and pressuring farmers to purchase other fertilisers and pesticides along with it.

He demanded strict action against those creating artificial scarcity and selling urea in the black market. Nama recalled that during the BRS regime, he and other MPs had raised the issue of urea supply in Parliament and wrote letters to ensure timely dispatch to Telangana.

Meanwhile, Telangana Rythu Sangham district secretary Bonthu Rambabu and senior leader Koppula Krishnaiah demanded that the number of urea supply centres under Gopavaram PACS of Konijerla mandal be increased.

Along with farmers, they staged a protest at Gopavaram Society on Thursday, pointing out that hundreds of farmers were facing difficulties. Rambabu suggested setting up new supply centres at Pedda Munagala, Teegala Banjar, Tanikella, and Gubbagurthi to ease the burden.