For more than ten days, because of problems with customs clearance of foreign mineral fertilizers, farmers of the Nikolaev region cannot buy them. Two ships carrying fertilizers are idle in the port of Nikolayev. 
The inspectors, who are responsible for checking the imported goods, cannot specifically explain on what grounds fertilizers cannot get to store shelves. Villagers who are waiting for their fertilizers do not explain why fertilizers have not yet hit the shelves. They believe that the customs services or the top management can be to blame. Delay is fraught with the danger of being left without a crop. The current weather conditions, when the snow has thawed in the fields, are ideal for fertilizing the soil. If in the next five to seven days saltpeter does not fall into the ground, grains and other crops will not receive the nitrogen support necessary for the beginning of spring.
Not only farmers of Nikolayevshchina, but also neighboring Odessa, Kherson, Kirovograd regions are expecting the earliest possible solution to the problem.
A similar incident with the "idle time" of mineral fertilizers was recorded in the Kherson region. In the same place for customs clearance can not pass fertilizers from Georgia.
