Serang (ANTARA News) - Subsidized urea and SP36 fertilizers disappear in Serang district, Banten Province, and threaten rice product in this year`s planting season, said Sumarna, a 50-year old local farmer here on Saturday.
"I have searched shops and contacted distributors but I did not find such kinds of subsidized fertilizer," said Sumarna, the farmer from Cimaung village in Cikeusal subdistrict.
He said that because of fertilizer scarcity in Serang, rice product in this year`s planting season was feared to decrease or to be destroyed by insect.
According to him, most of the rice fields in Serang were dependent on rain, and therefore they needed non-organic fertilizer.
Another farmer, Rahmat (45), said planting season this year has arrived following the arrival of rainy season early this month but subsidized fertilizers were difficult to find.
Therefore, he expressed hope that regional administration officials would immediately take action to overcome the fertilizer scarcity.
Meanwhile, H Nurnana, a fertilizer seller, admitted that he had yet to get subsidized fertilizer supply from the distributors in Serang.
"I have asked several distributors for subsidized fertilizers but so far I have not received them," Nurjana said.
Fertilizer scarcity is not only experienced by farmers in Serang alone but also in other districts.
It was reported from Pamekasan district in Madura island, East Java, on Wednesday that fertilizer of various kinds also disappeared from markets there ahead of planting season.
"We ordered the fertilizer from its agents two weeks ago but to date we have not received it," retailer from Proppo subdistrict, Fathorrahman said in Pamekasan on Wednesday.
He added Proppo, Larangan, Kadur, Galis, Pademawu, and Palengaan subdistricts in Pamekasan were having fertilizer scarcity at present.
He said the fertilizer scarcity had made the local farmers to become restless because planting season was near.
Therefore the farmers in Kadur subdistrict had to postpone growing paddy and corn because their fertilizer has been out of stock.
"If I start to grow paddy and corn now without fertilizer, I`m afraid the crop will fail," said Sadik, a farmer from Kadur subdistrict, Pamekasan.
Meanwhile, Pameskasan district trade and industry office chief Atok Suharyanto said the fertilizer scarcity there was due to speculators` trick of play because fertilizer allocation to Pamekasan was not reduced.
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