Fertiliser, seed of poor quality being sold openly

HYDERABAD: Growers of Matiari have expressed the fear that production of oilseed, gram, cotton and other crops will drop by 50 per cent because of sale of substandard seed and fertiliser and spurious pesticides in the town. During meetings with officials of the Research and Development for Human Resources which has launched “Grow more crops” campaign in Matiari in collaboration with Oxfam, they said that small growers would suffer losses of tens of millions of rupees this year. They said dealers of fake fertilisers, seeds and pesticides were minting money in the district. They spend thousands of rupees on each acre on farm inputs but they do not get back even the cost of production. They said their crops and houses were...

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