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Fertilizer dealers seek 60 days time

TIRUCHI: Responding to the State government’s decision to sell di-ammonium phosphate (DAP) only through cooperative societies from next month, in the wake of complaints of shortage , private fertilizer dealers have sought at least 60 days time to dispose the stocks left with them.

They have also appealed to the government not to discontinue supply of di-ammonium phosphate through private dealers and offered to form a self-regulatory body to monitor the distribution through its members.

An emergency executive committee meeting of the Tamil Nadu Agro-Input Traders Association, which claims a membership of 11,000 licensed dealers (a majority of them retailers), however, denied that its members had resorted to hoarding or profiteering. State. A few brokers or dealers may have resorted to clandestine transport of the fertilizer to some neighbouring States and the government could initiate action against them. To blame all retail dealers, would be unjustified, it contended.

“The verification exercise by officials in various districts over the past few days has not resulted in unearthing any unaccounted stocks from private dealers. All the stocks were accounted for properly,” the association president P.Vijaynatraj said briefing reporters on the deliberations of the meeting here on Friday.

If anything, there was only a misunderstanding on the demand-supply situation, he said.

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