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SUBSIDIZED FERTILIZER STOCK IN S SULAWESI DEEMED SUFFICIENT
Makassar, Dec 20 (ANTARA) - South Sulawesi farmers meed not worry about fertilizer supplies because the province has more than 79,000 tons of subsidized urea fertilizer in stock, Vice Governor Agus Arifin Nu'mang aaid.
"Unlike their peers in several parts of Java, farmers in South Sulawesi are not facing any subsidized fertilizer scarcities," Nu'mang said here on Friday evening.
Speaking to the chairman of the House of Representatives (DPR)'s Commission IV's working team Mindo Sianipar in a gathering at the South Sulawesi Governor's office, Nu'man said South Sulawesi's subsidized urea fertilizer stock was sufficient for local farmers during the planting season from November 2008 to February 2009.
"Farmers in South Sulawesi do not experience subsidized fertilizer scarcity, and a certain party who engaged in fraudulent distribution of some 7.5 tons of fertilizer in Goa district has been arrested," Agus Arifin said.
He added that there was no problem with the distribution of subsidized fertilizer to the local farmers.
Nu'man who is a former South Sulawesi Provincial Legislative Assembly (DPRD) speaker said the province's production of dried unhusked paddy until the third semester this year reached more than 4 million tons, or up 11.86 percent from n 2007 when the figure was recorded at about three million tons.
"Unlike their peers in several parts of Java, farmers in South Sulawesi are not facing any subsidized fertilizer scarcities," Nu'mang said here on Friday evening.
Speaking to the chairman of the House of Representatives (DPR)'s Commission IV's working team Mindo Sianipar in a gathering at the South Sulawesi Governor's office, Nu'man said South Sulawesi's subsidized urea fertilizer stock was sufficient for local farmers during the planting season from November 2008 to February 2009.
"Farmers in South Sulawesi do not experience subsidized fertilizer scarcity, and a certain party who engaged in fraudulent distribution of some 7.5 tons of fertilizer in Goa district has been arrested," Agus Arifin said.
He added that there was no problem with the distribution of subsidized fertilizer to the local farmers.
Nu'man who is a former South Sulawesi Provincial Legislative Assembly (DPRD) speaker said the province's production of dried unhusked paddy until the third semester this year reached more than 4 million tons, or up 11.86 percent from n 2007 when the figure was recorded at about three million tons.
