Farmers walk for hours, queue for hours but in vain

Kathmandu - Sita Thapa, a farmer of Tanahusur in ward no. 11 of Byas municipality walked to Damauli early in the morning as there was no public transportation available due to the lockdown. She was in the queue at 8:00 am on Friday for buying fertilizers, but at 4:30 pm she was told that the depot was closing and that she should come back the next the day.

"It was not that they ran out of stock, but they are asking us to come again tomorrow," Thapa said," I stood in the queue for the whole day since morning in the hope of buying fertilizer but in vain". She also lamented that some people received 35 to 40 kilogrammes of fertilizers, while some had to return empty handed. It was a similar story for Puja Kumal of Kalesti, who had arrived at 9:30 am.