Our Correspondent . Rangpur, The Daily New Age, 30 November 2007

Farmers of Nobdiganj and Kolyani unions under Pirgachha upazila blocked the Rangpur-Kurigram highway for about two hours Thursday demanding fertilisers.
   Locals and police said several hundred vehicles remained stranded on both ways, causing enormous trouble to the passengers.
   A huge number of farmers of the two unions gathered in front of the shop of Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation dealer Kashem Patwari for collecting coupons for TSP and MoP fertilisers from sub assistant agriculture officer sitting there.
   The agriculture official stopped issuing slips at about 10:00 am as the dealer’s shop ran out of the stock of TSP and MoP.
   This angered the large crowd of farmers waiting in queues for hours. An angry mob then blocked Rangpur-Kurigram highway from 10:00 am until police and members of the joint forces cleared the road at about 12:00 noon.