Govt to buy 40 lakh litres rice bran oil

Staff Reporter :
The government will purchase 40 lakh litres of rice bran oil and 6,000 tonnes of lentil from the country’s domestic market for the state-owned Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB).

Sayeed Mahbub Khan, additional secretary to the cabinet division, said the cabinet committee on public purchase on Wednesday approved the proposals for purchasing the rice bran oil and lentils.

The oil would be procured from Majumdar Bran Oil Mills Ltd by spending Tk 64.6 crore while the lentils will be bought from Nabil Nabal Naba Foods Ltd for Tk 57.05 crore, he added.

Sayeed Mahbub Khan said per kilogram bran oil will be purchased by Tk161.50 while Tk95.09 for lentil.