Stored food products would last till Mangsir : Ministry of Supplies

The Ministry of Commerce and Supplies has said that it had in store food products that could last until the Nepali month of Mangsir. At a press conference organised by the Ministry today, Spokesman of the Ministry Sambhu Prasad Ghimire said that going by the present storage capacity, there were more 231 thousand quintals of rice and wheat which could last for six more months. According to him, rice weighing 183 thousand quintals and wheat weighing more than 47 thousand quintals were in the inventory. BITE... The Ministry has claimed that the food products provided by different countries were being distributed to earthquake victims in a transparent manner.