3 years ago
Local farmers are facing a hard time selling their rice after the Food Management and Trade Company (FMTC), Dhangadhi stopped buying rice from them citing the lack of sacks and storage units, in Kailali.
FMTC has stopped the purchase, processed during season of rice selling when it has leased two storage units in Geta to World Food Organisation and other private sectors.
The capacity of those units is said to be 10,000 quintals per unit. After FMTC refused to buy the rice, farmers who came all the way to sell rice have been forced to stay under the open sky for the last four days.
Farmers came who came from Kanchanpur to Kailali to sell rice, have not been able to do so as FMTC refused to buy rice showing various reasons. They have been living on the road near the FMTC premises since then.
“The company will have a stock of sacks in two days,” claimed Anil Kumar Shrestha, Chief of FMTC, Dhangadhi. He informed; process is going on to rent a storage unit in other areas as well.
Government had set the price of medium rice at Rs 2,885 per quintal while that of thick rice at Rs 2,735 per quintal.
