Shortage Fears As Farmers Form Long Queues Outside UP Fertilizer Centres

In both the districts, government and police officials handed out paper tokens to farmers in an attempt to make the process of fertilizer sale more orderly.

With the beginning of the sowing season for Rabi crops, long queues of farmers are being seen at government-run fertilizer centres in Uttar Pradesh, even as the Centre claims there is no shortage of fertilizers in the country.

Videos shot by journalists showed hundreds of farmers standing in long queues at centres in Hardoi (in central UP) and Aligarh in the western part of the state, with some of them claiming they had been waiting for hours for a sack of fertilizer.

In both the districts, government and police officials handed out paper tokens to farmers in an attempt to make the process of fertilizer sale more orderly.

In Aligarh, the police were filmed trying to regulate huge crowds and hand out tokens at a centre in the district's Atrauli town.