bdnews24.com :
The food ministry has received the green light from a cabinet committee to import a quarter million tonnes of rice from Vietnam under a government-to-government deal.
The cabinet committee on public purchase, headed by the finance minister, cleared the import of 250,000 tonnes of rice at Tk 9.08 billion on Wednesday.
Bangladesh will buy 50 tonnes of parboiled rice at $470 per tonne and another 200,000 tonnes of white rice at $430 per tonne, Cabinet Division’s Additional Secretary Mostafizur Rahman said at a media briefing after the meeting.
Vietnam’s state-run Vinafood 2 will supply 60 percent of shipments through Chittagong port and 40 percent through Mongla port.
Bangladesh last imported 250,000 tons of rice from Vietnam in fiscal 2011-12.
The food ministry has received the green light from a cabinet committee to import a quarter million tonnes of rice from Vietnam under a government-to-government deal.
The cabinet committee on public purchase, headed by the finance minister, cleared the import of 250,000 tonnes of rice at Tk 9.08 billion on Wednesday.
Bangladesh will buy 50 tonnes of parboiled rice at $470 per tonne and another 200,000 tonnes of white rice at $430 per tonne, Cabinet Division’s Additional Secretary Mostafizur Rahman said at a media briefing after the meeting.
Vietnam’s state-run Vinafood 2 will supply 60 percent of shipments through Chittagong port and 40 percent through Mongla port.
Bangladesh last imported 250,000 tons of rice from Vietnam in fiscal 2011-12.
