No shortage of urea for rabi season in Punjab

There is no shortage of urea in the state as 85% of the fertilizer has already been made available to the farmers during current Rabi season.

Punjab requires 12.50 lakh tonnes of urea in current Rabi season till 31st of January, 2019 against which 10.60 lakh tonnes of Urea has already reached the state. Another 40,000 Metric tonnes of urea shall arrive in State in next four days. Balance quantity of urea has already been tied up to arrive in the days to come.


Sufficient quantity of urea has already been made available in Cooperative Societies of the state. Against the total demand of 5.81 lakh tons of Urea in the cooperative sector, a quantity of 5.04 Lac tons (87%) of urea has already been supplied to cooperative societies.

During current Rabi season Wheat has been sown in about 35 lakh hectares in Punjab and the application of urea in wheat continues up to 31st of January. State government is closely monitoring the supplies and sales of urea to the farmers in the State and there is no question of any shortage, said the spokesman.