Farmers complain of urea shortage nationwide, government says it’ll get the fertiliser within a week

Any delay would cripple production despite the gains of having 98 percent cultivation, the highest in the last five years.

Farmer Sharum Raut’s paddy plants half submerged in the water have turned green after three weeks of transplantation. It’s time for topdressing his paddy with urea. But it’s not available in the country.