While talking to the newsmen here on Wednesday, he said that the prolonged non-availability of the urea fertilizers was badly affecting the sowing of the seasonal paddy crops in Sialkot region.

District administration of Sialkot still remains unable to check the nasty practice by the fertilizers dealers, leaving the perturbed growers at the mercy of the fertilizers dealers in the district.

He said that the fertilizers dealers were selling the DAP fertilizers at a rate of Rs1600 to Rs1700 per bag in black against the fixed official rate of Rs1245 per bag in Sialkot, Daska, Bhopalwala, Sambrial, Uggoki-Bajwat, Pasrur, Chawinda, Satrah, Badiana, Mianwali Bangla and surrounding areas by creating artificial shortage of the urea fertilizers in the region.

He feared that the sowing of the seasonal paddy crops was badly hampering due to the shortage of fertilizers in Sialkot region.

He urged the government to look into the matter in the larger interest of the wheat growers and farmers.