"Stock of 30,000 tons of fertilizer, it is now in storage as well as PT Pusri Lubuklinggau Musi Rawas, and the estimated amount will be sufficient for the two regions during 2012, and if the later is still lacking, PT Pusri will send enhancements," said Head of Marketing PT Pupuk Sriwidjaja Lubuklinggau branch-Musi Rawas, Bunyamin Arza, Saturday (07/01/2012).
Stock of subsidized urea fertilizer for the City and County Lubuklinggau the Musi Rawas he said, had sent from Palembang in early January and then added the rest of the year which have not been redeemed by distributors in both areas.
Redemption of this fertilizer he added, can be performed by each distributor of fertilizers in both areas since the beginning of the year have entered the rice planting season of 2012, so that local farmers did not have to worry about not going to miss the subsidized fertilizer.
If the stock is currently available, farmers still struggling to get it, it can be sure that missing level of subsidized fertilizer distributors. For this case it was not liable, since the PT Pusri distribute it through distributors who then passed on to retailers and from retailers continued to farm.
Ration of subsidized urea both areas for 2012 he added, already established the Governor of South Sumatra, according to SK regents and mayors respectively. Distribution will be done through 12 distributors, including eight distributors located in the district of Musi Rawas and Lubuklinggau four distributors in the City with a quota of 127.9 tons per distributor.
Meanwhile, according to Head of Production of Food Crops and Horticulture Musi Rawas Tohirin, distribution of subsidized urea fertilizer in the area last year as much as 20382.07 tonnes consisting of 10243.11 tonnes of urea fertilizer, fertilizer SP-36 as much as 2216.55 tons, ZA 774 tons, 6700.41 tons of NPK and organic fertilizers as much as 448 tons.
At this year's quota of subsidized fertilizer received this area has not changed, despite previous local district government party has filed additional quota of subsidized urea fertilizer, since the number of newly received 10,243 tons, while the needs of local farmers reached 22,000 tons per year, so it needs the addition of 10,000 tons.
