Khulna, Sept. 6 -- Some 40,000 metric tonnes of three types of fertiliser kept under the open sky here covered with merely tarpaulin for a year for lack of storage space have got damaged, sources at the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) said.

The fertilisers were damaged during rain and when some of the areas got flooded.

The BADC sources also said three types of fertilisers - Triple Super Phosphate (TSP), Murate of Potash (MOP) and Dye Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) -- were imported from Morocco, Canada and Saudi Arabia during the 2018-19 fiscal year. Usually, contractors supervise the process until it enters the BADC warehouse.

Visiting the spot, the UNB correspondent found that the fertilisers were kept under the open...