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The current stock of food grain is at its lowest in the last few years. Both the cabinet committee on economic affairs and purchase approved a number of proposals in the past three months to import a total of 15.5 lakh tonnes of rice under government-to-government (G-to-G) arrangement and through international tenders. The latest move to import rice came yesterday, when the two cabinet committees approved two proposals to import 1.5 lakh tonnes of rice from India. During yesterday s cabinet meetings, chaired by Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, the cabinet committee on economic affairs approved the food department s proposal to import one lakh tonnes of rice from Indian state-owned National Federation of Farmer s Procurement, Processing and Retailing Cooperatives India (NACOF). ....