{"id":12723,"date":"2017-12-09T05:47:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T05:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=12723"},"modified":"2017-12-09T05:47:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T05:47:51","slug":"govt-to-import-2-lakh-tonnes-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2017\/12\/09\/govt-to-import-2-lakh-tonnes-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to import 2 lakh tonnes rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government will import soon a total of two lakh tonnes of non-basmati boiled rice from India.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) today gave approval to proposal in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister AMA Muhith chaired the meeting held at the cabinet division.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government will procure 1.50 lakh tonnes of non-basmati boiled rice from the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED)under government-to-government level agreement,&#8221; Mustafizur Rahman, Additional Secretary of the Cabinet Division, told journalists after the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The procurement price for per tonne rice has been fixed at US$440. So, the cost will be Taka 547.80 crore to purchase the rice,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government will import soon a total of two lakh tonnes of non-basmati boiled rice from India. &nbsp; The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) today gave approval to proposal in this regard. &nbsp; Finance Minister AMA Muhith chaired the meeting held at the cabinet division. &nbsp; &ldquo;The government will procure 1.50 lakh tonnes of non-basmati boiled rice from the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED)under government-to-government level agreement,&rdquo; Mustafizur Rahman, Additional Secretary of the Cabinet Division, told journalists after the meeting. &nbsp; &ldquo;The procurement price for per<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,12,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12725,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12723\/revisions\/12725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}