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Fertiliser: Punish middlemen taking advantage of farmers

Reports have emerged of unscrupulous traders using proxies to buy fertiliser from the National Cereals and Produce Board depots at a low price only to sell it to farmers at double the price.

The machinations of these traders have occasioned an acute shortage of the popular DAP (Di-ammonium Phosphate) from Government stores yet the same is readily available on the black market.

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