After the drive to eliminate middlemen from land-related works, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma now wants to dilute the role of middlemen in paddy procurement.
Govt to buy another 1.5 lakh tonnes of rice from India
Star Business Report
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The government will bring in another 1.5 lakh tonnes of rice from India to enrich the country s food stock.
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today gave go-ahead to the import proposals in two cabinet committee meetings.
Some 1 lakh tonnes of rice will be imported from the National Federation of Farmers Procurement, Processing and Retailing Cooperatives of India Ltd, an Indian government organisation on agriculture.
The cabinet committee on economic affairs approved the import, the price of which will be decided later after government to government negotiations between the two neighbouring countries.