Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, October 30, 2024: Deputy Commissioner, SAS Nagar, Ashika Jain has directed that to prevent black marketing of fertilizers, overcharging and unnecessary (other materials) tagging of fertilizers during the sowing of Rabi season crops, Agriculture Officers should regularly inspect the fertilizer sales center, so that farmers do not face any difficulty at the time of sowing.
In compliance with the said order of the Deputy Commissioner, Chief Agriculture Officer Dr. Gurmel Singh and his team inspected the fertilizer sellers located in Kharar. He directed all the fertilizer sellers to match the fertilizer stock register, bill book and point of sale machine with the DAP stock lying in the warehouse and the price and stock of the fertilizer should be written on the display board of the shop, along with this the mobile number of the farmer should also be recorded on the bill book. 
No fertilizer seller will tag any unnecessary material with DAP, urea fertilizer. If any seller is found doing so, action will be taken against him as per the provisions of Essential Commodities Act 1955 and Fertilizer (Control) Order 1985.
The Chief Agriculture Officer appealed to the farmers to apply DAP fertilizer as per the recommendation of the Agricultural University and advised to increase the use of triple/single super phosphate and other NPK fertilizers as an alternative to DAP. Apart from this, if any landowner has any complaint regarding fertilizer, he can contact/inform Block Agriculture Officer Derabassi (87280-00087), Block Agriculture Officer Kharar (84279-77101) and Block Agriculture Officer Majri (98156-77245).