Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 07 2010:
At a time when the whole State is reeling under the acute shortage of essential commodities including fertilisers, a dedicated NGO has come forward to extend help to the farmers of Ishikha and provided them with 70 bags of fertilisers, free of cost today.
Ishikha is a place well known for its rich harvest of potatoes.
Though the Government has fixed the price of a Urea bag of 50 Kgs at Rs 400, the same is being sold at Rs 700 and more in the black market in the face of the shortage as well as the timing, when farming activities are on in full swing.
In a simple but solemn and dignified function, key leaders of the NGO, Social Elevation for Human Resources and Environmental Management Organisation (SEHRE-MOM), gave a bag each to 70 farmers of Ishikha in Imphal East today.
Local MLA, Th Lokeshore who had earlier promised to deliver the same at the Government approved rate to the farmers, could not do so leaving the farmers in a fix.
"The local MLA is ineffective.
Despite being a member of the Congress which is heading the SPF Government he could not fulfil his earlier assurance," said a farmer identified as Brojen Meitei and added that had it not been for SEHREMOM, then all the farmers in the village would have been left with nothing on their hands.
Incidentally the said NGO has been supporting a large number of villages, including Ishikha in their agricultural activities.
"We had contributed some money from our own pockets and procured the fertilisers from Assam and they were brought to Manipur in phases along NH-53," said the NGO chairman Kiran.