CANKUZO, October 23rd (ABP) – While the 2024-2025 growing season A has begun, the population living far from the provincial headquarters of Cankuzo worries about the lack of FOMI organo-mineral fertilizers in storage sheds.
Farmers who spoke to a check by ABP deplore that they are unable to obtain FOMI fertilizer, even though they have ordered it.
As an illustration, in the villages near the Kirehe storage shed based in Mishiha village, Mishiha district, some say that one can spend the whole night there to try to occupy, very early in the morning, the first places on the waiting line but that one returns home empty-handed.
The situation is similar in Cendajuru district where some farmers are worried that the harvest will be poor if they sow without fertilizer.
The director of the Provincial Bureau of Environment, Agriculture and Livestock, Mr. Melchiade Ntahondereye, indicated that he is aware of that issue, explaining that this situation results from the fuel shortage that has disrupted the movement of that manure to the areas located far from the headquarters of the province.
He reassured that this problem has just been resolved, and that the distribution will be made from this week.
Pointing out the insufficiency of hybrid seeds called PAN53, or 35T, he advised the use of natural seeds because, according to him, they are also more profitable when they are regularly monitored.
Note that the population of that province has ordered, for this season A of the agricultural year 2024-2025, approximately 3000 Tonnes of Fomi-imbura fertilizer, more than 1000 Tonnes of urea and approximately 1000 Tonnes of dolomite.