Prices Squeezed, Goods Scarce

Subsidized fertilizer is scarce and prices are increasing rapidly. Farmers shares are being sold illegally in commercial markets as well as exported.

April 11, 2006

IT certainly isnt a normal state of affairs for Sugiman to have to carry photocopies of his identity card (KTP) wherever he goes. However, just to be able to buy any fertilizer, which has recently become scarce, this is what this farmer from the village of Junjung in the subdistrict of Sumbergempol, Tulungagung, East Java, has had to resort to doing.

Last week, he also had to take photocopies of his KTP with him when he visited Sambidoplang. And t

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