Kathmandu. In the first six months of the current fiscal year 2082\/83, Nepal has spent around Rs 20.5 billion on the import of rice and rice. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
According to the data of TAG_OPEN_p_5 the Department of Customs, rice worth Rs 20.38 billion was imported from mid-July to mid-January. Compared to the same period last year, the price had increased by 6.73 percent. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The import of Basmati rice has reached Rs 4.TAG_OPEN_p_4 27 billion while the import of other semi-polished or fully polished rice has crossed Rs 6 billion. However, there has been a slight decline in the import of rice. The import of rice which was Rs 10.42 billion last year was limited to Rs 9.87 billion this year. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Despite the rising price of rice imports, the revenue collected by the government has come down to Rs 1.44 billion.TAG_OPEN_p_3 Despite the policy of increasing production in the country, the increasing dependence on staple food items has created more challenges in the economy. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kathmandu. In the first six months of the current fiscal year 2082\/83, Nepal has spent around Rs 20.5 billion on the import of rice and rice. According to the data of TAG_OPEN_p_5 the Department of Customs, rice worth Rs 20.38 billion was imported from mid-July to mid-January. Compared to the same period last year, theContinue reading “Rice worth Rs 20.5 billion imported in six months”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":65992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1451,1388,1457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-samachar-en","category-top-breaking-second-en","category-desh-charcha-en"],"acf":[],"publishedDateNp":"\u096e \u092e\u093e\u0918 \u0968\u0966\u096e\u0968, \u092c\u093f\u0939\u0940\u092c\u093e\u0930 \u0967\u096b:\u0967\u0966","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65995,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65994\/revisions\/65995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/65992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}