Tuesday, 24 February, 2009 | 16:49 WIB
TEMPO Interactive, Batu:The allocation of 84 tons of organic fertilizers for Batu in 2008 proposed by the local municipal to the East Java Provincial Government will not be enough to go around.
According to Mochamad Toha, Batu Apple Farmers Group secretary, farmers need 40.000 tons of organic fertilizers for around 1.5 million apple trees that are still productive. “Cattle dung is one of our specialties,” he said yesterday.
Besides organic fertilizers, farmers also use a non-organic fertilizer called Phonska. This year, around 2.475 tons of Phonska fertilizer was enough to meet the apple farmers’ needs.
Public Relations and Protocol chief, Eko Suhartono, said that most of the subsidized fertilizers proposed for 2009 consist of 4.579 tons of urea fertilizer followed by 3.972 tons of ZA fertilizers, 2.475 tons of Phonska, 1.051 tons of Superphos and 84 tons of organic fertilizers.
Abdi P
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