Farmers not beneficiary of urea subsidy

ISLAMABAD - The government’s failure to get its orders implemented regarding the sale of urea on a price not more than Rs 650 per 50 kg bag is pushing the already inflation stricken farmers to the wall.

The urea fertilizer is being sold at the price of Rs 800 per 50 kg bag against the government’s stipulated price of Rs 650 per 50 kg bag, which has increased the production cost of the farmers, already victim of industrialists’ atrocities.

The federal government has subsidized urea fertilizer to make it affordable for the farmers, but they are not the real beneficiaries of the subsidy and only industrialists and traders are getting benefit from it.

All this is happening because government only makes policies and does not implement them. Government has banned hoarding of the fertilizers but traders are hoarding to create artificial shortage in the market, sources said.