Sugarcane Farmers in Sarlahi Face Crisis Due to Fertilizer Shortage and Delayed Payments

Janakpurdham. Ramdev Kushwaha, a 60-year-old farmer from Hatkatwa village in Dhankoul Rural Municipality, Sarlahi, has been cultivating sugarcane. He is frustrated due to the lack of necessary fertilizers during the farming season and delayed payments even after selling his produce.

He complained that there was a shortage of fertilizer at the time of planting sugarcane, and even now, during the weeding season, he cannot get fertilizer.