GOVT MAINTAINS 11 QUALITY PARAMETERS TO IMPORT WHEAT FOR THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR

লিখেছেন লিখেছেন ইগলের চোখ ২৯ জুন, ২০১৫, ০৩:৪৫:৪৪ দুপুর

The Directorate General of Food seeks to upgrade standards for wheat purchases through international bidding to curb imports of low quality grains. Government has taken an initiative to improve the specifications on quality parameters for wheat purchases through international bidding. The wheat was supplied by two contractors-the Netherlands-based Glencore Grain and Singapore-based Olam International-at a cost of $46 million or Tk 355 crore. Ninety percent of the payment has been cleared by government food ministry. For wheat import, the food directorate currently maintains 11 quality parameters, including test weight, heat damaged kernels, shrunken and broken kernels, contrasting classes, protein content, moisture, dockage and radioactivity etc . The agency has already placed a proposal with the food ministry so that it can buy wheat from the international market from next fiscal year based on the tightened specifications. In the outgoing fiscal year, the food directorate signed a contract to buy six lakh tonnes of wheat from the international market and received 3.26 lakh tonnes from contractors so far. To attain the target, the government has allocated Tk 2,432 crore, up from Tk 1,615 crore in the revised allocation for the current fiscal year. The government aims to buy 9.5 lakh tonnes of wheat from abroad next fiscal year.

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