By Our Correspondent, Humla, Jan.16: The Food Management and Trade Company Limited has brought basmati (slender-grained aromatic) rice for the first time in its store in Humla.

The company recently transported 400 quintals of basmati rice to the warehouse of the company in Humla from Surkhet and Nepalgunj by helicopter.

The rice brought with the transportation grant of the government will be sold to the locals in the district.

Krishna Prasad Adhikari, Chief of the Food Company, said that the company was able to bring premium basmati rice for its consumer in remote areas of the country 34 years after the establishment of the company in Humla. The Food Company had established its warehouse in Humla in 1977.

“We tried hard to bring premium variety food grains to the consumers here, we were able to sell Jeera steamed rice from premium variety before this,” he added.

The company targeted transporting 10, 000 quintal rice for the consumers in the hunger-affected remote high-hilly districts for the current fiscal year and 2,000 quintal of that will be basmati rice.  

According to him, the company will charge Rs.110 for a kilogram of rice for the common consumers who want to purchase it. But the employees and bureaucrats need to pay Rs.112 for a kilogram of rice.