Govt. team leaving for Bangladesh to purchase fertilizer

Kathmandu- A government team is leaving for Bangladesh to purchase 50,000 metric tonnes of chemical fertilizer.

The Nepali government team is heading towards Bangladesh on Tuesday to sign an agreement in order to purchase fertilizer through government-to-government (G2G) process.

The four-member team is led by Managing Director of Agriculture Inputs Company, Netra Bahadur Bhandari.

Joint-Secretary at the Ministry, Kanchan Raj Pandey, Chief of Procurement Division of the Company, Bishnu Prasad Pokharel, and Agriculture Publicity Officer of the Ministry, Arun GC, are also in the team.

According to the Ministry, the team would present its proposal for purchasing fertilizer to the Bangladeshi government on Wednesday and sign agreement for the purchase.