Hatiyagola
food depot in
Sankhusabha
sees short of
rice for past
15 months
(rn
09/10/2024)
Goat
demand up in
Valley as
Dashain travel
is curtailed :
Live goat
priced from
Rs630 to Rs700
per kg this
Dashain.
Damage to
roads caused
by floods and
landslides has
hampered
vehicular
movement
(kp
09/10/2024)
Drone
takes relief
to
disaster-hit
families : In
a first for
Nepal, a
non-profit
uses a drone
to fly relief
to settlements
cut off by
floods and
landslides in
Kavre, by
Jyoti Shrestha
(kp
07/10/2024)
Two
state
suppliers trim
festival sugar
imports : The
government
permitted the
corporations
to import
30,000 tonnes
from India
through G-2-G
but only 6,000
tonnes would
be procured
(kp
07/10/2024) [This is very good news for people's health!]
Dashain
goods stranded on borders of China and
India : As the key highways remain
obstructed following floods and
landslides, there is little hope that
the consignments will arrive in
Kathmandu for festival, by Krishana
Prasain and Anish Tiwari (kp 03/10/2024)
Vegetable
supplies in Kathmandu drop 95 percent :
Traders warn that fresh vegetable prices
in the Capital may rise dramatically if
the highways connecting Kathmandu Valley
are not repaired soon (kp
30/09/2024), Kathmandu
veg supply drops 72 percent (ae
01/10/2024)
Sugar
shortage likely to repeat as festival
season begins : Government late again in
allowing imports. Last year, the price
jumped from Rs90 to Rs160 per kg on
panic buying, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 16/09/2024) [Eating
too much sugar is unhealthy anyway!]
Petroleum
products not to be distributed from NOC
depots on July 16 (kh 14/07/2024)
No shortage of
chemical fertilizers in Madhesh this
year (kh 11/07/2024)
Importance of
digitizing Nepal’s supply chain, by
Rajan Sharma (ae 05/07/2024)
Cooperatives
halt fertiliser supply in paddy season :
Most cooperatives in Parsa say quotas
allocated to them are small, which sows
seeds of quarrel with the farmers and
local politicians, by Shankar
Acharya (kp 04/07/2024)
Capital grapples
with petrol shortage as tanker drivers
protest (with photos), by Chirayu
Shakya (kh 17/06/2024), Tanker
drivers, NOC reach agreement,
fuel transport to resume today
(kh 17/06/2024), Fuel
crisis sparks chaos in Valley,
resolved by late afternoon :
Petroleum workers abruptly
stopped supplying to private
fuel stations demanding social
security coverage and minimum
wages, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 18/06/2024)
India
lifts onion export ban but traders say price in
Nepal could double : The neighbour shifted onion
export from ‘prohibited’ to ‘free’ but imposed a
minimum export price of $550 per tonne, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 06/05/2024) [And why is Nepal neglecting
agriculture and not growing enough onions
itself?]
Chemical
fertilizers imported from China being
transported to Kathmandu (rep 19/04/2024)
NOC
plans to set up chemical fertilizer factory to
reduce import dependency (rep 10/04/2024)
Hunger
is a Serious Problem in South Asia, by Hari
Prasad Shrestha (rep 06/04/2024)
Bajura
sells food grains, but reels under rice shortage
: Experts attribute growing preference among the
district residents for rice over local crops as
one of the factors for the scarcity, by
Arjun Shah (kp 28/02/2024)
Chemical
fertilizers stored in Tatopani customs warehouse
for 10 months (rep 20/02/2024)
Govt
urges early initiation of fertilizer procurement
process (rep 23/01/2024)
Onion
smuggling thrives after Indian export ban : The
staple has become expensive in Nepal. Due to the
price differences in Nepal and India, it has
become a lucrative business for smugglers,
insiders say (kp 08/01/2024)
India’s
export quota on non-basmati rice to Nepal comes
with slew of restrictions : Rice importers say
under the current quota arrangement, imported
rice will be dearer by over 30 percent in the
local market (kp 05/01/2024)
India
allows Nepal to import rice on quota basis : On
Sunday, the supply ministry published a notice
requesting Nepali importers to approach the
Indian state-owned supplier (kp 26/12/2023)
One
year of government: Supply chain of chemical
fertilisers eased (kh 25/12/2023)
Traders
look north as demand for onion rises : After
Chinese onions started to arrive, Indian
authorities have quietly permitted the export of
the essential kitchen ingredient to Nepal,
despite the sweeping ban announced on December 8,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 25/12/2023)
Nepal
to request India for onion supply : Officials
say they are also discussing with importers the
possibility of importing the vegetable from
China and Pakistan (kp 19/12/2023)
Businessmen
demand duty exemption for 1 million tons of rice
as existing stock is enough only for three
months (rep 13/12/2023)
India
imposes ban on onion exports until March 2024
(kh 08/12/2023), After
wheat, rice and sugar, India bans onion exports
: Friday’s ban, according to the market
observers, would send the price of the vegetable
to over Rs200 per kg in Nepal’s retail market.
It is already in short supply (kp
09/12/2023)
Kathmandu
Valley faces shortage of potatoes and onions
after traders halt supply (rep 07/12/2023)
Humla
hit by food crisis (rep 06/12/2023)
Four
months into the fiscal year, Gorkha villages
finally get rice : The government has been
selling rice in the food-insecure northern
villages of the district at a subsidised rate,
by Hariram Upreti (kp 04/12/2023)
A
bitter taste : Nepal’s high dependence for sugar
in other countries is a self-inflicted wound
(kp 24/11/2023)
Government to ensure no sugar
shortage during Tihar (kh 03/11/2023) [But sugar is unhealthy!]
Delayed
rice supply dampens Dashain joy in Jajarkot
(ae 20/10/2023)
India
lifts ban on rice export, allows export of
95,000 tons of rice to Nepal (rep
18/10/2023), India
allows export of 95,000 tonnes of non-basmati
rice to Nepal : Nepal had formally asked the
Indian government for export quotas of 100,000
tonnes of rice and 50,000 tonnes of sugar in the
first week of August, following export curbs by
the southern neighbour (kp 19/10/2023)
Karnali
has annual 19,116 metric tons food grain
deficit (kh 18/10/2023)
Global
index shows ‘moderate level of hunger’ in Nepal.
Ranks 69th : Experts say people have started
spending less on food as their incomes have
stagnated, by Krishana Prasain (kp
17/10/2023)
Bajura
folk despair as rice depots empty ahead of
festivals : The Food Management and Trading
Company points to a delay in appointing a
transport contractor as the cause, by Arjun
Shah (kp 13/10/2023)
Sugar
shortage likely due to delayed import process :
On September 13, the Finance Ministry approved
the import of 20,000 tonnes of sugar for the
festive season (kp 30/09/2023)
Food
for festival : It is a minimum necessity to
celebrate a long-awaited festival and the state
must ensure it (kp 26/09/2023)
Big
festivals near but food depots in Darchula are
empty : There are 13 food depots in the
district. Many local residents depend entirely
on the supply as local production barely covers
them for six months, by Manoj Badu (kp
24/09/2023)
Jajarkot
reeling under food shortage, by Rajendra
Karki (ae 21/09/2023)
Analyzing
procurement laws in relation to local government
procurement : When winning bids are considerably
below the cost estimates the quality of the
project is compromised. It also directly hinders
project completion resulting into defaults and
delays, by Ashesh Shrestha (nlt 15/09/2023)
Nepal
to import 20K tonnes of sugar to prevent price
hikes : The retail price of the popular
sweetener has jumped from Rs110 to Rs130 per kg
in less than two weeks, say traders, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 15/09/2023)
Food
crisis looms large in Nepal, by Sabitri
Dhakal (ae 14/09/2023)
Government
has stock of food grains that can sustain three
month demand (rn 05/09/2023)
Securing
food for remote districts (ae 04/09/2023)
Nepal
passed over for rice export quotas : Officials
say India has not responded to Nepal's request
for export quotas of paddy, rice and sugar,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 01/09/2023)
Onion
disappears from market as India slaps export tax
: Nepal imports almost all its onion requirement
from India, and the tax has created shortages in
the domestic market, by KLrishana Prasain
(kp 23/08/2023)
India
bans rice exports, Nepali consumers feel the
impact : Price of rice of non-basmati variety
has increased by up to Rs 250 per sack in Nepali
market after the government of India imposed
export ban on July 20, by Kalpana Ghimire
(nlt 08/08/2023)
Unveiling
Resolutions for Managed, Sustainable Food
Economics, by Nisha Jha (kh 08/08/2023)
Let
them eat rice : Nepal does not grow enough rice
to feed its population, and without imports from
India, the shortfall will be acute. Nepal used
to sell rice. Now it can’t do without buying it,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 06/08/2023)
Govt
to import 1 million tons of paddy and 100,000
tons of rice to avoid possible shortage of food
grains (rep 05/08/2023)
Fear
of food crisis as multiple problems hit paddy
production : Lumpy skin, low monsoon rainfall
and slow transplantation have raised possibility
of a reduced harvest, experts say, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 01/08/2023),
Rice
for thought : Coming months will be challenging
for farmers, consumers and national economy as a
whole (kp 01/08/2023)
Grain
drain : Covid, climate and conflict have
combined to make hunger more acute in Nepal,
by Chandra Kishore (nt 28/07/2023)
Delays
and price issues leave tonnes of urea stranded
at Tatopani : As the private supplier could not
import the chemical fertiliser on time, the
Agriculture Inputs Company, the buyer, is
hesitant to receive the consignment, by
Anish Tiwari (kp 22/07/2023)
Import
of daily essentials through Biratnagar border
point to face stricter regulations (rep
12/07/2023)
outh
Asia struggles to address hunger as inflation
soars : Floods in Pakistan, drought in India and
the changing patterns of monsoon in Nepal are
making it difficult to attain sufficent food
production, experts say, by Subin Adhikari
(kp 12/07/2023)
The
Karnali’s hunger emergency : The government’s
fortified flour scheme is not a long term
solution to the region's chronic food insecurity,
by Anita Bhetwal (nt 07/07/2023)
shortage
of food grains during rainy season: Ministry
(kh 04/07/2023)
Nepal
imported paddy, rice worth over Rs 33.6 billion
in 11 months of current FY (rep 30/06/2023),
Instead
of succumbing to India’s undue influence, engage
in paddy plantation: Balen tells leaders (kh
01/07/2023)
Food
distribution centres set up in north Gorkha :
The residents of far-flung settlements in
Chumnubri Rural Municipality express relief,
by Hariram Upreti (kp 23/06/2023)
71,000
metric tons of chemical fertilizers secured, no
shortages anticipated this year: PM Dahal
(rep 23/06/2023)
Preparedness
Must For Food Security, by Namrata Sharma
(rn 21/06/2023)
Food
insecurity, undernourishment deepen in South
Asia: Report (kh 19/06/2023)
No
chemical fertiliser shortage this paddy season,
agriculture ministry says : This fiscal year,
the ministry requested funds in mid-February to
import fertiliser for paddy transplantation
(kp 13/06/2023)
Rice-short
residents of Saipal demand a food depot :
Rice-supplier private firm Jalpa Devi Supply
Company is accused of selling subsidised rice on
the black market, by Basanta Pratap Singh
(kp 30/05/2023)
India
clears export of 300,000 tonnes of wheat to
Nepal : Media reports say India has permitted
exports of food grains to Nepal, Indonesia,
Senegal and Gambia as part of its economic
diplomacy, by Krishana Prasain (kp
29/05/2023)
Mugu
villages reeling under food shortage (rep
21/05/2023)
Starving
Saipal residents crying for food (kh
09/05/2023)
Around
3,000 people in Saipal of Bajhang reeling
under food shortage : Residents of Saipal
Rural Municipality need over 4,000 quintals of
rice per year, but the government has provided
a subsidy for only 2,500 quintals. So far, the
contractor has supplied only 1,750 quintals of
rice this year, by Arjun Poudel (kp
08/05/2023)
Nepal’s
dairy sector flags severe milk shortage : The
state-owned DDC and privately-owned Nepal
Dairy Association and Dairy Industry
Association have requested the government to
lift the ban on imports of skimmed milk powder
to prevent shortages, by Pawan Pandey (kp
19/04/2023)
Nepal
looks to India easing its wheat export
quota restriction to address domestic
shortage : Domestic suppliers may
already have started hoarding wheat,
says Nepal Flour Mills Association
executive, by Krishana Prasain (kp
11/04/2023)
Flour
industry seeks increase in Indian wheat export
quota : Nepali flour producers have been urging
the government to request India to provide
200,000 tonnes of wheat, by Krishana Prasain
and Mohan Budhaair (kp 22/03/2023)
Buying
salt becoming a challenge for outlying Mugu
villages : Locals have to make an arduous,
costly two-day journey to Gamgadhi to buy
subsidised salt, by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp
16/03/2023)
People
of Karnali spend Rs 2500 to buy salt worth
Rs 45! (rep 13/03/2023)
Three
out of 1,080 bags of rice were found discolored
and ‘damaged by seawater’ during shipping: WFP
Nepal : Following media reports that the rice
set to be distributed by the United Nations
World Food Program was of inferior quality, the
organization’s Nepal office has asked the
authorities to address the issue in a timely
manner (nlt 05/03/2023)
Flour
mills hit as India controls wheat exports :
Reduced shipments could result in a flour
shortage in the market, and that may push up
prices, traders say, by Krishana Prasain (kp
14/02/2023)
Fertiliser
subsidies likely to hit record Rs39 billion :
Despite spending so much on fertiliser
subsidies, the expected rise in food production
has not happened, officials say, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 03/02/2023)
State
of hunger in Nepal, in the world : Though Nepal
stands at a moderate level of hunger, countries
in South Asia in general face the highest level
of hunger and the global hunger situation
remains grim, says the 2022 Global Hunger Index
(nlt 29/01/2023)
50,000
metric tons of wheat required to address
shortage (rep 27/01/2023), Mill
operators urge govt to import wheat citing flour
shortage (ht 27/01/2023), 85
percent of flour mills shut after India
restricted wheat export : India imposed a ban on
wheat export on May 13 last year after
unseasonably hot weather affected the wheat crop
sending local prices soaring, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 28/01/2023)
Jumla
suffers massive milk deficit : A Nepali consumes
72 litres of milk and dairy products annually,
while the recommended requirement is 91 litres.
But in Jumla, the per capita milk consumption is
only 4 litres, by DB Budha (kp 27/01/2023)
Food
crisis hits Bajura's Rudi village (ht
21/12/2022)
Ensure
smooth fertilizer supply (ae 08/12/2022)
India
to export 600,000 tons of unmilled rice to Nepal
(kh 02/11/2022)
Distribution
of chemical fertilizers begins nation-wide,
by Basanta Dhungana (rep 01/11/2022)
NPC
recommends opening concession food shops in all
municipalities (kh 28/10/2022)
Children
in northern Darchula deprived of mid-day meal :
Scores of students have been left without the
government-provided mid-day meal as landslides
and floods disrupt food supply from the district
headquarters, by Manoj Badu (kp 11/10/2022)
Consumption
of petroleum products goes up by 75 percent : As
people have started leaving Kathmandu Valley to
celebrate Dashain, a long queue of vehicles is
seen at some petrol pumps for fuel (nlt
30/09/2022)
Salt
provided under grant reaches Humla after a year
(rn 30/09/2022) [???]
Rice
eaters face rising prices after India strangles
supply : The southern neighbour initiated the
move to boost supplies and calm prices after
below-average monsoon rainfall curtailed
planting, by Krishana Prasain (kp
25/09/2022)
Karnali
residents have no grains ahead of festivals :
Rice shortage is a perennial problem in the
far-flung districts and government help is too
little too late, by Krishna Prasad Gautam
(kp 17/09/2022)
Aviation
fuel supply stopped at three airports including
Gautam Buddha Int’l Airport (rep 10/09/2022)
Fair
price shops to offer bitter surprise : Outlets
not to sell sugar this year due to India's
export ban, by Kiran Lama (rn 08/09/2022)
Mountain
districts face shortage of rice : The shortage
is caused by delay in the transportation of
grains by the contractors, officials say, by
Raj Bahadur Shahi and DB Budha (kp 14/08/2022)
NOC
to build fuel storage tank of 8.7 million liters
at Amlekhgunj, by Dilip Poudel (rep
07/08/2022)
Fuel
demand in Province 1 drops by half (rn
03/08/2022)
Nepal
inks deal with India to import chemical
fertilizer for five years (kh 28/07/2022)
Can’t
import food forever : We should work hard
towards improving food security domestically
(kp 27/07/2022)
Looming
food crisis : The state has
never taken food shortages
seriously because of the false
security net—the Indian market,
by Madhukar Upadhya (kp
13/07/2022)
Nepal
Oil Corporation’s outstanding dues to its Indian
supplier rise to Rs30 billion : There is,
however, optimism that the financial situation
of the national oil monopoly will improve after
petroleum prices started to decline in the
international market amid global recession fears,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 09/07/2022), Is
Nepal Oil Corporation’s proposal to government
rationale? Suffice to say, these recommendations
are neither suitable for the short-term, nor are
they viable long-term measures. In fact, it
would pose even greater risks in the lives of
the people as well as the economy as a whole,
leaving everyone worse-off, by Anoushka Pant
(nlt 11/07/2022), Government
to provide Rs seven billion loan to NOC (nlt
17/07/2022)
Energy
: Can Nepal reliably reduce fuel imports?,
by Kamal Dev Bhattarai (ae 07/07/2022)
Proposal
to limit 5 litres to two-wheelers and 20 litres
to four-wheelers (rn 04/07/2022)
Oil
Corporation increasingly anxious about piling
debt to its Indian supplier : Near bankruptcy,
public utility has outstanding payment dues
worth Rs22 billion and the sum is expected to
rise, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
03/07/2022)
Nepal’s
dependency on rice increasing, annual import
touches Rs 50 billion : Rice, the staple crop of
the country, is grown in around 1.5 million
hectares of land and it requires around 6
million metric tonnes of rice annually to feed
around 30 million population of the country
(nlt 02/07/2022)
Nepal
sets ambitious target for food sufficiency : The
government plans to reduce crop imports and
increase domestic production despite a lack of
irrigation and fertiliser, by Ramesh Kumar
(nt 01/07/2022)
Making
our own fertilizer : The country is worryingly
short of chemical fertilizers, urea especially,
this plantation season (ae 30/07/2022)
Fuel
import from Birgunj transit up by 78 percent
(kh 23/06/2022)
Nepal
imports petroleum products of Rs 267.3 billion
in 11 months (kh 22/06/2022)
Rethinking
fertilizer subsidy : The government should work
towards gradually removing regulatory barriers
as well as subsidies in fertilizer import. For
as long as these prevail, the private sector
cannot enter and compete, by Ayushma
Maharjan (nlt 20/06/2022)
Desperate
farmers seize fertilisers in Dhading : The
smuggled farm inputs were being escorted to
Kathmandu when people intercepted trucks and ran
away with sacks, by Sarita Shrestha (kp
19/06/2022)
Fertilizers
to be distributed from June 20 (rep
17/06/2022)
Chemical
fertilizers as DAP imported, urea coming soon:
Salt Trading (kh 14/06/2022)
Parliament
tells government to ensure chemical fertilisers
anyhow : Fertiliser shortages have gripped the
world, raising concern about a food crisis if
production falls short of targets, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 14/06/2022)
Flood
of contraband sugar causing glut in market :
Nepal’s annual sugar demand is 260,000 tonnes,
the country produced 105,000 tonnes of the
household sweetener in the last fiscal year,
by Krishana Prasain and J Pandey (kp 12/06/2022)
Nepal
scrambles to secure fertilisers as paddy season
begins : Minister in Delhi as India seeks
details from Kathmandu to tide over crisis of
essential farm inputs like urea and DAP, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 03/06/2022), Nepal
clears hurdles to import fertiliser from India
to tide it over paddy season : To fast-track the
process, the Cabinet has opened the way for a
rush shipment of vital crop nutrients, officials
say, by Sangam Prasain and Anil Giri (kp
08/06/2022), 80,
000 metric tons of fertilizers to be imported
from India, by Dilip Poudel (rep 08/06/2022)
Delhi's
sugar export curbs likely to hit market (ht
26/05/2022) [Don't
worry, it will be good for the health of the
citizens!], Let's
be self-reliant : The govt must encourage our
farmers to grow more sugarcane by offering them
additional incentives (ht 27/05/2022)
Fertiliser
shortage haunts farmers ahead of looming paddy
season : Fertiliser shortage is major problem
repeating every crop season in the past several
years, by Binod Bhandari and Arjun Rajbanshi
(kp 25/05/2022) [It is
the same every year, no matter which incompetent
government is in power!]
On
petro business, policies have been utterly
inconsistent for many years : Several task
forces have recommended ending the monopoly of
Nepal Oil Corporation. Deregulation of fuel
business becomes an agenda when losses are
reported, by Sangam Prasain and Krishana
Prasain (kp 24/05/2022)
Ukraine
War and Risk of Food Insecurity in Nepal, by
Hari Prasad Shrestha (rep 16/05/2022)
Don't
panic, no shortage of cooking gas, say LPG
bottlers (ht 04/05/2022)
Global
Paper Crisis: Impact On Nepal, by Chiranjivi
Sharma (rn 29/04/2022)
Villagers
in North Gorkha rely on mules to bring in
essential goods : People of the remote villages
have to pay three times the actual cost to bring
in essentials, including food, clothes and
construction materials, on mules, by Hariram
Upreti (kp 24/04/2022)
Govt
curtails fuel expenses by 20 percent : Nepal is
running low on foreign reserves and it can
finance imports of goods and services for just
six months (nlt 18/04/2022), Govt
cuts fuel allowances being given to civil
servants by 20 percent (rep 19/04/2022)
Experts
warn against supply cuts as daily fuel imports
hit Rs1 billion : Fuel accounts for 14.1 percent
of Nepal’s imports. Officials believe curbing
imports can put economy back on track, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 13/04/2022)
The
geopolitics of food : Far-reaching consequences
of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict on child hunger
in poor countries, by Sonia Awale (nt
08/04/2022)
NRB
suggests halving import of petroleum imports
(kh 06/04/2022), Govt
to provide Rs 4.20 bn to NOC to pay IOC for fuel
import (rep 06/04/2022)
Nepal
imports paddy and rice worth about Rs 37 billion
in eight months (kh 05/04/2022)
Fuel
crisis : The people must eventually learn to
consume less of those things that we do not
produce, such as fuel (ht 05/04/2022)
Long
Queues At Govt Petrol Pumps As Private Pumps
Remain Closed (rn 02/04/2022), Government
directs authorities to ensure smooth supply of
petro products (kh 02/04/2022), All
petrol pumps to open from 8 am today (kh
03/04/2022), Fuel
shortages fears trigger panic buying : Agitating
distributors, who are demanding fare hike, agree
to resume supply as Oil Corporation commits to
addressing their issues, by Krishana Prasain
and Shuvam Dhungana (kp 03/04/2022), Supply
of petroleum products in Kathmandu Valley eases
following agreement (rep 04/04/2022)
Five times more betel nuts than
demand imported: Report (kh 05/03/2022)
Petrol
pump owners disrupt national fuel supply system
(kh 04/03/2022), Private
gas stations refuse to buy fuel from NOC, fuel
shortage likely (rep 04/03/2022), Petroleum
dealers demand a bigger cut after price hike,
threaten to disrupt supply : Fuel prices have
increased but the commission has not, the Nepal
Petroleum Dealers National Association says,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 05/03/2022)
Nepal,
India sign agreement for supply of fertilizers
(nlt 28/02/2022)
Severe
fertiliser crisis looms as government continues
to fumble : Sources say that government will not
be able to meet even half of the chemical
fertiliser requirement which may trigger farmer
protests during the proposed local elections in
May, by Sangam Prasain (kp 22/02/2022)
Apihimal
rural municipality at high risk of acute food
insecurity (kh 16/02/2022)
Karnali
residents suffer from salt shortages every year
: Understaffed salt depots and mismanagement on
part of relevant authorities forcing villagers
to buy the commodity from traders at exorbitant
prices, by Krishna Prasad Gautam and Raj
Bahadur Shahi (kp) [Continued
neglect by government and administration!]
Acute
food crisis hits Rudhi village in Bajura (ht
08/02/2022), Food
crisis looms large with drought in Bajura
district (ht 15/02/2022)
Continuous
snowfall since December disrupts supply chains
in Saipal : First the November floods affected
food supply, then came snowfall. Now villagers
face a looming shortage of essentials, by
Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 30/01/2022)
A
case of sheer govt negligence: Over 7,000 tons
fertilizer dumped to rot at Birgunj dry port,
by Narayan Neupane (rep 24/01/2022), Rotten
fertiliser : How can we expect agriculture
growth in the country when the concerned
officials do not take decisions on pressing
issues? (ht 26/01/2022)
Nepal
Oil says it is bankrupt, further price rises
foreseen : Situation is so bleak that it is back
to the bad old days when the loss-making,
cash-strapped public enterprise used to ask the
government for handouts to import fuel, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 22/01/2022)
NOC
in dilemma of whether taking loans for fuel
purchase (rep 18/01/2022)
Nepal
reeling under fertilizer shortage as China
reluctant to supply it on time : 38,500 metric
tons of fertilizer stuck in China, by Eak
Raj Bastola (kh 17/01/2022)
Food
depots in Humla run out of stock (rep
09/01/2022)
Govt
blames ‘odd situation’ in int’l market for its
failure to import chemical fertilizers on time
(rep 03/01/2022)
Farmers
complain of fertilizer shortage during wheat
sowing season (rep 26/12/2021)
Acute
shortage of essential medicines at government
health centres in Mugu : The district is in dire
need of medicines since the number of patients
suffering from fever, typhoid, asthma, common
cold, diarrhoea and vomiting is on the rise with
the onset of winter, by Raj Bahadur Shahi
(kp 06/12/2021), The
Nepali state in the Himalaya : The food shortage
in Limi Valley has highlighted Nepal’s weak
state presence in the Himalayan borderlands,
by Amish Raj Mulmi (kp 10/12/2021)
Fertiliser
crisis could spell economic disaster, experts
warn : Essential farm nutrients could be in
short supply in Nepal amid global shortages,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 03/12/2021) [This
does not interest Nepal's politicians at all, as
it has nothing to do with their power ambitions!]
Subsidised
salt remains unsold in northern Gorkha : The
residents of Samagaun and Chhekampar have to
walk for two days to reach the food depots in
Philim or Salleri to buy salt, by Hariram
Upreti (kp 26/11/2021)
Food
depots in Mugu district empty as contractors
delay supply of subsidised rice : District
residents have to pay higher prices to buy the
grain from local markets, by Raj Bahadur
Shahi (kp 23/11/2021), First
duty of the state : The government must ensure
judicious use of resources to maximise its
social welfare output (kp 24/11/2021)
25,000
tons of DAP fertilizer imported by AICL arriving
in Nepal soon (rep 22/11/2021)
Farmers
in Far West hit by chemical fertiliser shortage
: Due to escalating global prices, the
government company responsible for supplying
imported fertilisers is having a hard time
finding sources, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp
12/11/2021)
Lumbini
Province is self-sufficient in food production,
officials say : The province produced 2.51
million tonnes of food, resulting in a surplus
of 445,000 tonnes, according to officials,
by Madhav Aryal (kp 04/11/2021)
1,500
metric tons of chemical fertilizers stuck at
Tatopani checkpoint due to unofficial China
blockade (kh 19/10/2021)
Global
coal supply shortage may hit Nepal too,
manufacturers say : They have warned prices of
building materials could skyrocket during
the peak construction season, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 11/10/2021)
Rice
airlifted to Gorkha villages hit by shortages :
Residents of Chhekampar and Chumchet complain
that the recent supply is too little to meet the
demand. Landslides have blocked the only
foot trail that links the settlements, by
Hariram Upreti (kp 30/09/2021)
Bajura
stares at food shortages ahead of major
festivals : While Food Management and Trading
Company Limited has stopped selling subsidised
rice, food prices in the local market have
skyrocketed due to transport disruption, by
Arjun Shah (kp 24/09/2021)
Government
allocates record Rs15 billion for fertiliser
supply : The entire budget allocation may be
enough to procure 350,000 tonnes of fertiliser
for this fiscal year, still 50,000 tonnes short
of the desired 400,000 tonnes, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 21/09/2021)
NFC
depots in Bajura closed after shortage of rice
(ht 21/09/2021)
Nepal
less and less able to feed itself : Growing
population, rising income and stagnant domestic
production mean more dependence on food imports
to meet growing demand, by Ramesh Kumar (nt
10/09/2021)
Food
shortage looms as rice supply to Gorkha villages
halts : The only foot trail linking the
settlements to the rest of the district got
damaged by landslides two months ago, by
Hariram Upreti (kp 06/09/2021)
Supply
chain goes haywire as constant rain soaks
country : Vegetable prices soar with the start
of festival season while traders blame shortages
as usual. If the rains continue, prices will
keep on rising, they say, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 04/09/2021)
Mules
being used to transport food to Upper Manang
(kh 28/08/2021)
Chemical
fertiliser shortage is a perennial
problem. It stems from multiple factors : An
audit report says in the last three years, the
government has been able to supply only 63
percent of the fertiliser need. There is no
clarity on the current actual requirement,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 27/08/2021)
Severe
food crisis looms large in Bajura district
(ht 24/08/2021)
Food
shortage looms in Byas villages after landslides
disrupt foot trails : Local residents have been
unable to bring in food and essentials from
India after Sashastra Seema Bal personnel
cut off all improvised cable crossings across
the Mahakali river around two weeks ago, by
manoj Badu (kp 18/08/2021)
Food
bank at Barekot to address food crisis (kh
17/08/2021)
Govt.
to airlift food and medicine to Manang (kh
23/07/2021
Rice
ferried to remote Sirdibas Village (kh
11/07/2021)
Hunger
& Scarcity Hit Badi Community, by Mahesh
Nepali (Badi) (rn 15/06/2021)
Daily
earners hit hardest by prohibitory orders in
Lumbini : The workers have no source of income
and have received no relief from the authorities
and social organisations during the ongoing
second coronavirus wave, by Sanju Paudel and
Mohan Budhaair (kp 14/06/2021)
Shoppers
throng state-owned stores for groceries at
discounted prices : Customers said they saved
money, but there was risk of infection due to
lack of social distancing (kp 09/06/2021), Consumers complain
govt announcement of discount a mirage for poor,
by Sabina Karki (kh 09/06/2021)
KMC
provides hotline number 1180 in aid of people
without food (kh 04/06/2021)
Fertilisers
not on ‘essential commodity’ list as paddy
farmers wait anxiously : Decision to block
supply can have an overarching effect, as it may
hit paddy crop, and slash economic growth in
turn, by Sangam Prasain (kp 03/05/2021), Always
a shortage : There is something seriously wrong
when farmers face a lack of fertiliser every
year (kp 04/06/2021), Nepal
all set to sign fertiliser supply deal with
India : The five-year agreement will assure
supply of 30 percent of Nepal’s annual
fertiliser requirement, officials say, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 05/06/2021) [And for the remaining 70 per
cent, farmers will have to wait for months as
usual!]
Nepal
to bring fertilizers thru G2G deal with India
(kh 01/06/2021)
Govt
reiterates to build petroleum storage capacity
for 90 days, a plan that has remained in limbo
for years (rep 29/05/2021)
High-level
talks being held to keep the food coming :
Most of Nepal’s cereal requirement is fulfilled
by imports, mainly from India; Most of Nepal’s
cereal requirement is fulfilled by imports,
mainly from India, by Krishana Prasain (kp
08/05/2021)
Rights
activists find rapid response team ineffective :
The job of squad representing several ministries
is to keep supply lines clear during the
prohibitory period aimed at containing rising
Covid-19 cases; Traders say trucks bringing food
items to Kathmandu have to wait at entry points
for long, by Krishana Prasain (kp
05/05/2021)
Over
30,000 tonnes of fertiliser arrive from
Bangladesh (ht 07/04/2021)
Nepal
self-sufficient in egg and meat
production, government says : According to the
Ministry of Agriculture, the country produces
1.61 billion eggs and 548,000 tonnes of meat
annually, by Sangam Prasain (kp 26/03/2021)
Rice
supply disrupted in Sudurpaschim Province due to
contractors’ reluctance : The contractors have
refused to transport goods citing financial
losses on the trips they make to the hilly
regions, by Mohan Budhaair (kp 21/03/2021)
Two
companies blacklisted for a year for failure to
deliver chemical fertilisers last year :
It was the first time domestic firms had
been awarded contracts to supply fertilisers but
their failure meant that fertiliser was not
available during paddy cultivation season,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 14/03/2021)
Nepal
short of 13 liter per capita per year to be
self-reliant in milk (rep 13/03/2021)
3,400
tonnes of urea fertiliser arrive from Bangladesh
(ht 11/03/2021)
Muktikot
village in Bajura grapples with acute food
shortage, by Prakash Singh (ht 07/03/2021)
Soaring
fertiliser prices raise concern about possible
shortages : Supplies won’t be affected as
shipments are already on their way, officials
say. Annual demand for chemical fertilisers is
700,000 tonnes but imports are just around
300,000 tonnes, by Sangam Prasain (kp
24/02/2021)
Food
availability in Nepal : Challenges faced with
urbanisation, by Sauravi Regmi (ht
18/02/2021)
Mugu
villagers walk for days to buy salt : The
residents of Mugumkarmarong Rural Municipality
end up spending more money on the travel,
food and lodging expenses for the journey than
on salt, they say, by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp
14/02/2021), For
a pinch of salt : The government must ensure
that essential commodities reach rural areas
efficiently (kp 15/02/2021)
Contractors
negligent in supply and sale of rice in remote
Karnali districts : People say contractors don’t
transport rice in time and when they do, the
grains are of inferior quality, by Chandani
Kathayat and Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp 11/02/2021) [Disinterest of the Oli
government to control this and ensure supply to
the people!]
Nepal,
India close to signing supply contract for
fertiliser : The deal will ensure regular supply
of plant nourishers which often runs short
during critical times, officials say, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 09/02/2021)
Government
plans for new petroleum law and deregulating the
oil business : Several attempts in the last
decade failed despite the sector being governed
by an old law, by Krishana Prasain (kp
02/02/2021)
MoALD
starts importing fertilisers for next season
(ht 15/01/2021)
Fertiliser
buffer stocks to be created to ensure
regular supply to farmers : Each province will
have a reserve of 25,000 to 30,000 tonnes which
will be used in times of crisis, officials say,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 07/01/2021)
Fertiliser
import from Dhaka delayed (ht 05/01/2021)
Transportation
of subsidised rice to upper Dolpa begins : Last
year, 3,000 quintals of foodgrains was allocated
to the region but the grains are yet to be
supplied, by Hari Gautam and Raj Bahadur
Shahi (kp 13/12/2020)
What’s
the cause behind fertilizer shortage? What can
be done?, by Bhairab Raj Kaini (rep
10/12/2020)
Nepal
saw massive spike in food imports (rep
07/12/2020) [This
is no wonder after the incompetent Oli
government did not allow Nepali products to be
transported to markets and consumers!]
Onion
import from China increases (ht 01/12/2020)
Government
has purchased 8,090 tonnes of paddy so far
(ht 28/11/20209
Fertiliser
import from Bangladesh still uncertain (ht
24/11/2020)
State-owned
chemical fertiliser supplier says there will be
no scarcity this winter : Recurrent shortages of
the crop nutrients have been the bane of Nepali
farmers, by Sangam Prasain (kp 21/11/2020)
Empty
food depots force Mugu folks to buy rice at
higher price : Subsidised rice meant for the
villages hit by food shortage is being sold
elsewhere, by Raj Bahadur Singh (kp
10/11/2020)
Limi
folks worried about food shortage during winter
(kh 02/11/2020)
Marigold
flowers are going to be rarer and dearer this
Tihar, traders say : Celebrators can expect to
pay Rs20 more per garland because marigolds will
be hard to come by after the growing season,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 02/11/2020)
Subsidised
rice meant for Karnali illegally exported to
other provinces : A truck carrying 250 quintals
of subsidised rice on its way to Bhaktapur from
Surkhet was seized by police, according to the
chief district officer, by Kalendra Sejuwal
(kp 31/10/2020)
The
heat’s on : When the country is having to import
rice worth billions of rupees annually,
declining output due to droughts and other
reasons is worrisome (ht 22/10/2020)
Sugar
imported by Salt Trading for festive season to
arrive today (ht 21/10/2020)
Growing
food insecurity in Sudurpaschim (ht
18/10/2020)
We
can’t keep importing food : Increasing
dependence on the market to supply food may not
be feasible in the days ahead, by Madhukar
Upadhya (kp 09/10/2020)
Kathmandu
city officials inspect 123 shops in 22 days,
by Anup Ojha (kp 01/10/2020)
Why
the agro supply chain couldn’t be saved :
Revamping the ecosystem of the agricultural
value chain requires concerted efforts,
by Roshee Lamichhane (kp 28/09/2020)
Nepal
Government to sell onions at low cost (ht
24/09/2020)
Domestic
goat production adequate to fulfil festival
demand, livestock traders say : Last year,
imports from India made up for the shortfall in
domestic production ahead of the Dashain
festival, records show, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 22/09/2020)
Nepal
Spending Billions In Onion Import, by Laxman
Kafle (rn 20/09/2020)
Cooperatives
blame MoALD for wastage of agro products (ht
19/09/2020)
Of
onions and potatoes : The need for Nepal to
become self-sufficient in vegetables cannot be
overemphasised. (kp 18/09/2020)
Upper
Dolpa Sees Food Shortage; Supply Halted Over A
Year (rn 18/09/2020)
Agriculture
Inputs Company cancels contract with fertiliser
importers (ht 07/09/2020)
Relief
distribution programme in Birgunj fails to cover
vulnerable families : Around 150 women had
reached the District Police Office on Thursday
to receive relief but had to return empty-handed,
by Bhusan Yadav (kp 06/09/2020)
Uncertainty
in fertiliser distribution riles farmers, by
Arpana Ale Magar (ht 05/09/2020), Feeding
plants to feed people : News stories of farmers
not getting fertiliser on time and annual
shortages keep appearing in the media, by
Arun GC (kp 06/09/2020)
Liquor
freely available even as food crisis deepens in
Bajura (ht 04/09/2020)
The
fertiliser conundrum–governments ponder over it
every paddy season and forget after harvest : An
agreement with India to procure fertiliser
expired in 2017. Since then farmers have been
deprived of timely supply, as authorities have
failed to explore other options, by Sangam
Prasain and Anil Giri (kp 03/09/2020)
Food
shortage looms large in Mugu, Dolpa districts of
Karnali Province : The Food Management and
Trading Company Limited could not transport food
to Mugu due to the nationwide lockdown and the
disruption of Namga-Gamgadhi road by floods and
landslides, by Raj Bahadur Shahi and Hari
Gautam (kp 02/09/2020)
Customers
bewildered after police stop online stores from
making deliveries : Kathmandu CDO says shops are
open in the morning, delivery services could be
allowed after health protocols are in place,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 29/08/2020), Police
halt home delivery service, arrest staff :
‘First they held our delivery boy and then they
came to arrest me. Other operators also in
custody’, by Arpana Ale Magar (ht
29/08/2020) [Politicians
who do not deliver should be arrested instead!!]
Bajura
locals reeling under acute food shortage (ht
22/08/2020)
Grocery
shoppers scramble due to small window of
time : It is challenging to finish making
deliveries by early morning, traders say, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 22/08/2020)
Rice
shortage looms over Bajura villages due to road
disruptions, by Arjun Shah (kp 20/08/2020)
Farmers
complain of urea shortage nationwide, government
says it’ll get the fertiliser within a week: Any
delay would cripple production despite the gains
of having 98 percent cultivation, the highest in
the last five years, by Sangam Prasain (kp
17/08/2020)
Sugar
shortage hits Valley as festival season nears:
The household sweetener cost Rs 72 per kg before
the lockdown, and now the retail price has
crossed Rs 100 per kg, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 04/08/2020) [A
reduced consumption of sugar is better for
health either!]
Survivors
face food crisis (ht 27/07/2020)
Government
moves to shorten supply chain to benefit
consumers: The Department of Commerce, Supply
and Consumer Protection has drafted regulations
to determine the layers of middlemen, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 13/07/2020)
Nepal
imports 424,397 tons of food in 100 days of
lockdown (rep 06/07/2020)
250,000
tonnes of fertiliser distributed (ht
24/06/2020)
Supply
chain and food security: Meeting the dietary
needs of all Nepalis has been a problem, with or
without Covid-19, by Roshee Lamichhane (kp
23/06/2020))
Food
insecurity, economic slowdown loom as acute
shortage of fertilisers is going to hit paddy
production: This year, fertiliser was supplied
neither from the government’s mechanism nor from
illegal traders, as their clandestine supply
lines were severed by the Covid-19 lockdown and
border restrictions, by Sangam Prasain (kp
22/06/2020)
Food
insecurity across country increases by 23 per
cent: Survey (ht 19/06/2020)
Food
crisis hits Bajura folks hard (ht
14/06/2020)
MoALD
facing difficulties in managing fertilisers
(ht 13/06/2020)
Famine
or feast in Nepal?, by Sushma Joshi (ae
05/06/2020)
COVID-19
and food insecurity, by Purna B. Nepali and
Mahesh Bisukhey (ht 01/06/2020)
Nepal
has enough food to feed the population for 5
months: Distribution amid the lockdown is the
problem, officials say, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 28/05/2020) [???]
Retail
merchants running low on stocks as lockdown gets
tighter: The government's ever changing policy
has made it difficult to maintain smooth supply
of goods, say traders, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 22/05/2020)
Spoilt
rice distributed as relief in Dhangadhi Sub
Metropolis: The Sub Metropolitan city had
purchased food grains worth Rs 26.1 million to
distribute to the impoverished households during
the coronavirus pandemic, by Arjun Shah and
Mohan Budhaair (kp 21/05/2020)
DoCSCP
receives most complaints of LPG shortage (ht
12/05/2020)
Fuel
consumption down 80 percent in April with
economy in suspension: Officials said sales of
all petroleum products except cooking gas dried
up, by Sangam Prasain (kp 11/05/2020)
Food
and livelihood insecurity during a pandemic: As
the services sector is bound to face a long and
hard journey to a revival, the agro sector will
be all the more important, by Apsara Karki
(kp 08/05/2020)
Karnali
Province in a comfortable position on food
supply: While vegetables are abundant in the
market, the fruits are less so, since the import
from India has stopped , by Chandani
Kathayat (kp 08/02/2020)
Government
aims to support workers from unorganised sector
with relief-for-work programme: Urban
development and federal affairs ministries have
submitted the list of potential jobs to the
finance ministry, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 04/05/2020)
Veggie
prices drop on supply of local products (ht
03/05/2020)
Volunteers
delivering fresh vegetables to people's homes at
farm price: Locals said the social work being
done by the youths had provided them much relief,
by Durgalal KC (kp 29/04/2020)
Taplejung
runs out of subsidised rice supply as demand
soars during lockdown: Food Management and
Trading Company Ltd has requested the centre to
supply 1,000 quintals of rice to fulfil the
demand, by Ananda Gautam (kp 26/04/2020)
Fuel
Consumption Down To 10 Per Cent (rn
25/04/2020)
Chepangs
face a humanitarian crisis: The impact of the
lockdown on vulnerable communities does not
appear on the government's radar, by Biwash
Chepang (kp 22/04/2020)
Bardiya’s
poor are starving while the local unit has been
slow to distribute relief: According to data by
the ward office, around 200 daily wage earners
in the ward have been severely affected by the
lockdown, by Kamal Panthi (kp 22/04/2020)
While
produce rots in Nepal’s fields, food imports
continue from India: Vegetables are piling up on
Birgunj farms even as 15 to 20 trucks laden with
vegetables arrive from the south every day,
by Bhusan Yadav and Sangam Prasain (kp 21/04/2020)
Northern
Humla braces for a food shortage: Humla saw a
prolonged snowfall this winter and the route to
Taklakot was closed before the pandemic, by
Chhapal Lama (kp 18/04/2020)
Families
of daily wage earners, impoverished Dalit
communities in Province 2 deprived of reliefs
even after three weeks of nationwide lockdown:
Most of the local bodies are yet to implement
the budget released by the provincial executive
for relief distribution even after three weeks
of the lockdown (kp 18/04/2020)
Fuel
import via pipeline halted amid storage
constraint (ht 18/04/2020)
4.6
million Nepalis are food-insecure, and 10% have
severe need, by Shree Ram Subedi (rep
16/04/2020), WFP
reports on food security exaggerated: Nepal
Government, by Shree Ram Subedi (22/04/2020)
Locals
cry foul over shortage of subsidised rice in
Saipal: Some families allege the contractors
were biased in distributing subsidised rice even
when the supply chain was intact before the
lockdown, by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp
16/04/2020)
SC
summons authorities over petition over lockdown
stranded (rep 15/04/2020), Dairy
products worth Rs 5b lying unsold due to
lockdown: Sales down by 70%, says NDA (rep
15/04/2020) [It would
have been an outstanding task of the government
to apply safe und intelligent ways to avoid such
waste!]
Gorkha
municipality won’t accept food grains as relief
over quality concerns: Shahid Lakhan Rural
Municipality has decided to accept only money
and medical equipment from donors, by
Hariram Upreti (kp 15/04/2020)
68
gas bullets waiting to be unloaded, by
Sarita Shrestha (rep 14/04/2020)
Keep
it going: Vegetable supplies during the lockdown
(rep 13/04/2020)
Nawalparasi
locals return spoiled rice distributed as
relief: District administration office forms
committee to investigate the incident, by
Nabin Paudel (kp 11/04/2020), There
are sufficient stocks of food and shipments
arrive regularly, officials say: Factories
manufacturing food products have been allowed to
resume production (kp 10/04/2020) [Similar to the rice that has
been sent to Nawalparasi?]
In
the wake of lockdowns and supply chain
disruptions, a potential food crisis looms:
Since Nepal relies almost entirely on imports of
chemical fertilisers, any disruption to the
supply chain could quickly escalate into a food
crisis, say experts, by Sangam Prasain (kp
11/04/2020), Farmers
are selling their produce for a pittance even as
customers are paying exorbitant prices: The
lockdown has meant that farmers are unable to
travel to Kathmandu to sell their produce,
relying instead on middlemen who are maximising
profits, by Aditi Aryal (kp 11/04/2020)
Vegetables
to be sold at 11 designated sites as Kalimati
bazaar is shuttered: Outlets to be opened at
Kalanki, Baphal, Swayambhu, Banasthali, Gongabu,
Basundhara, Tinkune, Gopi Krishna, Lainchaur,
Ratna Park and Koteshwor, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 10/04/2020)
Grow
your own: When it comes to staples, Nepal needs
to get back to its roots (kp 09/04/2020), Food
during the coronavirus crisis: Governments are
responding to the health emergency as they
rightly should, but ensuring food supply is
equally vital, by Arun GC (kp 09/04/2020)
Food
crisis hits haliya families hard in Bajura,
by Prakash Singh (ht 09/04/2020)
Take
it seriously: Shortage of essential supplies
(rep 09/04/2020)
Valley
residents concerned by dwindling food supply as
lockdown lengthens: The general public is having
a hard time getting food to feed their families,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 09/04/2020)
Protracted
lockdown hits squatter families hard: Families
of daily wage earners in Biratnagar and Dhading
stare at trouble as local governments fail to
distribute relief, by Deonarayan Sah and
Harihar Singh Rathour (kp 08/04/2020)
India
halts all rice exports but Nepal will be fine,
say officials: Nepal imports almost all of its
fine and basmati rice from India, but traders
say there are enough stocks in-country to last
three months, by Sangam Prasain and Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 08/04/2020)
NOC
importing fuel on necessity basis as demand
slumps: Motihari-Amlekhgunj oil pipeline
operating belo (ht 06/04/2020)
Govt
plan to open fair price shops fails to take off
(rep 06/04/2020)
Shortage
of cooking gas continues despite NOC adopting
measures to ease supply (rep 05/04/2020)
Working
families need more support as novel coronavirus
contagion takes hold: UNICEF, ILO, UN Women
(ht 02/04/2020), Support
working families to reduce impact of COVID-19:
UN agencies to govt (rep 02/04/2020), Govt
devising standards for distribution of relief to
needy people (rep 02/04/2020), Kathmandu
city has no exact details of its poor citizens
to distribute food relief: The lockdown has
greatly affected the families living in squatter
shanties, but the city spokesperson claims not
all of them need help, by Anup Ojha (kp
04/04/2020)
Food
supply resumes in Humla: 56 quintals of rice
have been imported in the district on Wednesday,
according to Nepal Food Corporation district
depot, by Chhapal Lama (kp 02/04/2020)
Chicken
supply resumes, egg consumption increases
(ht 01/04/2020)
Kalimati
Market To Open Twice A Day To Reduce Crowd,
by Laxman Kafle (rn 30/03/2020)
Govt’s
home delivery service off to a bumpy start
(ht 29/03/2020)
Food
Producers Seek Govt Support To Keep Supply Chain
Intact (rn 29/03/2020)
Vegetables
become scarce and costly as transporters stay
away due to virus fears: Prices have increased
by up to 200 percent, according to the Kalimati
Fruits and Vegetables Market Development Board,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 28/03/2020)
Online
stores flooded with orders, but cannot fulfil
them for lack of delivery system: The
government’s unclear policy has forced them to
shut down when people need them the most,
e-retailers said, by Krishana Prasain (kp
28/03/2020)
Plan
afoot to supply daily goods at Kathmanduites’
doorstep (ht 27/03/2020), Customs
across the country lie deserted: Hardly 500
trucks and containers entering Nepal in a day
(ht 27/03/2020)
Gas
bottlers asked to sell half-filled cooking gas
cylinders (rep 27/03/2020)
Department
stores start home delivery of groceries, by
Sujita Pradhan (rep 27/03/2020)
Essentials
may run out, the government needs to ensure
supply: In the long run, Nepal must prioritise
growing more food domestically (kp
26/03/2020), Govt
having tough time managing essential supplies
(rep 26/03/2020), India
lockdown hits supply of daily essentials in
Nepal: Foreign Ministry requested to resolve
issue (kh 26/03/2020), NHRC
urges govt to ensure smooth supply of daily
essentials (kh 26/03/2020)
Panic
buying forces Bajhang Salt Trading depot to stop
the sale of salt: People coming from faraway
villages returned home empty-handed, by
Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 25/03/2020)
LPG
sellers asked to keep records of customers to
discourage multiple purchases (rep
22/03/2020)
Dailekh
sees shortage of cooking gas, by Govinda KC
(rep 22/03/2020)
Electronic
system to keep tabs on fertilizer stocks at
depots (rep 19/03/2020)
Black
marketing of petroleum products rampant (rep
19/03/2020)
Valley
gasoline stations go dry as shortage fears spark
panic buying: People are worried that they may
not be able to buy fuel due to the virus
outbreak, officials said, by Shuvam Dhungana
(kp 18/03/2020)
Government
to open fair price shops to allay fears of
shortages and price hikes: The stores will stock
groceries and non-food items like cooking gas
and induction cookers, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 18/03/2020)
Artificial
shortage of LPG hits consumers (ht
17/03/2020)
Gas
pumps remain shut anticipating fuel price
revision (ht 16/03/2020), Market
sees shortage of petroleum products, by
Sujita Pradhan (rep 16/03/2020)
Nepal
Oil Corporation boosts gas imports to meet
demand surge: The state-owned company is
importing 11,000 tonnes of cooking gas on top of
the regular shipment for this month, officials
said, by Krishana Prasain (kp 14/03/2020), Cooking
gas not in short supply, says NOC (rep
15/03/2020)
Do
not panic, supply of essential goods intact’
(kp 11/03/2020)
Stocks
of essentials at govt-owned enterprises can last
up to 6 months (rep 08/03/2020)
India
announces lifting ban on onion exports: Supply
has normalised with the market receiving around
70 tonnes of the vegetable daily, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 06/03/2020)
Govt
limits export of foodstuff (rep 06/03/2020)
Subsidised
rice in food depot costlier than market price:
More than 300 quintals of rice transported to
the depot last year are yet to be sold, by
Hariram Uprety (kp 06/03/2020)
Hand
sanitisers in short supply due to buying rush
sparked by outbreak fears: The disinfectant is
seen as providing protection against the spread
of the disease, by Krishana Prasain (kp
05/03/2020)
What
onions and garlic tell us about our food system:
Numerous examples seen in the recent past serve
as an alarming reminder of just how food
insecure we are, by Madhukar Upadhya (kp
21/02/2020)
Karnali
reeling under food shortage: Six districts out
of 10 in the province are not able to meet the
demand for food (ht 16/02/2020)
Barekot
facing food crisis (ht 05/02/2020)
Transporters
halt ATF supply: Seek revision in NOC’s
‘shrinkage loss’ provision (ht 28/01/2020),
Transporters
resume ATF supply (ht 30/01/2020)
Saipal
residents face shortage of essentials as
snowfall blocks roads: Rasyalek area, which
connects several villages to Kanda, the
administrative centre of Saipal, is blanketed
with more than seven feet of snow, by
Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 23/01/2020)
Achieving
zero hunger in Nepal: Actions such as
revitalising local food systems and transforming
nutrition behaviour must be interconnected,
by Bandana Shakya (kp 15/01/2020)
Locals
demand probe after getting rotten rice in Humla,
by Dhan Bahadur Budha (rep 13/01/2020)
Fuel
supply through cross-border pipeline
‘temporarily’ halted (ht 06/01/2020)
How
we failed on onion: Nepal has suitable climate
and other resources required to produce onion.
Nepal can even export onion. Why are we not able
to do that?, by Bhairab Raj Kaini (rep
05/01/2020)
Contractors
selling subsidised rice in Rukum (East) due to
lack of employees in depots: Locals say the
problem has persisted for years due to the
government-run Food Management and Trade
Company’s apathy, by Hari Gautam (kp
03/01/2020)
Government
to buy 5,000 quintals more paddy in Nepalgunj,
by Arjun Oli (rep 31/12/2019)
Back
to the roots: Output-based incentives in farming
could make Nepal a food sufficient country,
by Uttam Khanal (kp 30/12/2019)
Construction
materials become cheaper, but there are few
buyers, say dealers: The production of cement
and iron rods has surpassed demand leading to
excess supply, byKrishana Prasain (kp
25/12/2019)
House
panel rejects cement standards proposed by the
Bureau of Standards: Large construction projects
have been using Indian cement as the local
product is not graded, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 24/12/2019)
Nepal
turns to China for onions after Indian ban:
Chinese onions cost Rs195 per kg while smuggled
Indian onions cost Rs225 per kg, according to
traders, by Krishana Prasain and Balaram
Ghimire (kp 20/12/2019)
New
code of conduct being created for market
inspectors: The Commerce Department has also
formed a task force to revise the list of
essential commodities, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 15/12/2019)
Makwanpur’s
Chepangs, still sustaining on root fruits, await
a harsh winter: A majority of the Chepangs still
subsist on root vegetables that they collect
from the forests, by Pratap Bista (kp
12/12/2019)
After
India ban, Chinese onions take local market,
by Sujita Pradhan (11/12/2019), Daily
onion import through Tatopani crosses 100 tons,
by Dhruba Dangal (rep 12/12/2019)
Why
Rs 155 million ‘Mission Onion’ failed, by
Shree Ram Subedi (rep 10/12/2019)
Karnali
does not have a food shortage—it has a rice
shortage, locals say: Decades of rice supplies
by the government and the World Food Programme
have led locals to adopt rice as a staple food,
even though it was never an indigenous grain,
by Tularam Pandey (kp 27/11/2019)
Bajhang
and Baitadi reel under acute food insecurity:
Experts say droughts, poor transportation
facilities and lack of irrigation facility and
access to market are behind the continuing food
insecurity, by Tripti Shahi (kp 24/11/2019)
‘No
need for LPG consumers to panic’ (ht
20/11/2019)
With
Indian ban, onions becoming steadily
unaffordable, by Sujeeta Pradhan (rep
20/11/2019)
Self-reliance
in cement yet to benefit Nepalis (ht
08/11/2019)
Food
management, not famine, challenge for Nepal:
Minister (rep 17/10/2019), Achieving
zero hunger: Nepal requires strategies in place
to fix the potholes, and support enhancing
production-based food systems, by Madhukar
Upadhya (kp 18/10/2019)
Amlekhgunj
depot starts supplying diesel to Bhairahawa,
Biratnagar, by Upendra Yadav (rep
17/10/2019)
Essential
commodities, services staff barred from going on
strike (ht 16/10/2019)
Government
boosts dairy supply for Dashain: High-level
inspections which will continue during Dashain
to prevent unnecessary price hikes on dairy
products, by Krishana Prasain (kp
06/10/2019)
People
reeling under food crisis in Bajura (ht
05/10/2019)
Nepal
Food Corporation depots empty on the eve of
Dashain: The residents of Mugu are compelled to
buy rice in the local markets at a high price,
by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp 01/10/2019)
Two
villages in Manang face shortage of salt: Lack
of motorable road and arduous trail to the
district headquarters make it difficult for
Narphabhumi residents to fetch salt all year
round, by Aash Gurung (kp 22/09/2019)
Road
blockage creates shortage of daily essential in
Manang: Even though the mounds of mud across
Besishar-Chame road have been cleared, vehicular
movement is still at least a week away. The
roadblock means scarcity of daily essentials in
Manang, by Aash Gurung (kp 17/09/2019)
Government
faces a goat problem ahead of Dashain: Import
restrictions and insufficient domestic
production mean prices are likely to soar
(kp 15/08/2019)
No
rice in Kawadi depot for months (ht
12/09/2019)
Food
corporation to supply 3,000 goats to Kathmandu
to meet the Dashain meat demand: Around 1,500
mountain goats from Mustang and as many goats
from other districts will be brought, officials
say, by Anup Ojha (kp 01/09/2019)
No
family in Chitwan settlement has enough grains
to last all year round: Out of 574 households,
only 260 can produce food grains which last only
for three months, by Rajesh Kumar Paudel (kp
23/08/2019)
Sugar
shortage looms while government delays decision:
The ministry has proposed to import sugar to
forestall any possible scarcity during Dashain
and Tihar, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 22/08/2019)
[But this is good for
the people's health!]
NOC
fails to implement dual-pricing system in
liquefied petroleum gas (ht 19/08/2019)
Shortage
of daily essentials hits lives in rural
municipalities (ht 03/08/2019)
Quantitative
restriction on sugar import lifted (ht
19/07/2019)
Fresh
vegetables are becoming scarcer in Kathmandu
Valley: Deliveries of farm products shrink as
floods wipe out crops, causing prices to jump,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 15/07/2019)
Poorly
equipped laboratories delay supply of imported
vegetables and fruits:Vegetable and fruit
importers need to get their products chemically
tested before getting customs clearance, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 01/07/2019)
Nepal
Oil Corporation to constructfuel storage plant
in Surkhet: It will be first facility of its
kind in the Karnali region and will hold 90 days
worth of fuel, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
30/06/2019)
Rural
farmers travel to Kathmandu for fertilisers,
only to return empty-handed: Failure to import
sufficient fertilisers has meant Nepal is
reeling from critical shortage, by Arjun
Poudel (kp 24/06/2019)
Petroleum
supply in eastern Nepal affected by software
glitch in India’s online entry system, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 06/06/2019)
Chepang
community reeling under acute food crisis
(ht 27/05/2019)
55,000
tonnes of chemical fertiliser imported for paddy
season, by Shankar Acharya (kp 23/05/2019)
Supplier
accused of stealing 1000 quintals of subsidized
rice, by Lokendra Khanal (rep 09/05/2019)
Disease,
hunger
and chronic poverty kill people in Humla:
Doctors on the ground say living conditions are
terrible in the district, by Arjun Poudel
(kp 05/05/2019), Transportation
of subsidised rice halted in Humla, by Jaya
Bahadur Rokaya (kp 07/05/2019)
Subsidised
rice sold out, consumers in lurch (ht
03/05/2019)
Storage
tanks, pipelines estimated to cost Rs 41b,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 26/04/2019)
NOC’s
plan to start LPG business to end private
sector’s control (ht 26/04/2019)
Commission
paid to gas bottlers hiked to Rs 259.88 per
cylinder, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 25/04/2019)
Govt
assures LPG bottlers to address their concerns
within a week (ht 06/04/2019)
Chemical
fertiliser factory not feasible, say
stakeholders, by Arpana Ale Magar (ht
05/04/2019)
Increasing
incidents of LPG cylinder explosions raise
questions over quality (ht 27/03/2019)
Gas
bottlers
call off protest after oil corporation’s promise
to resolve dispute: High time lasting solution
sought for import and sale of cooking gas,
experts say, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
06/03/2019)
Government
allocates extra Rs3 billion for fertiliser
imports, by Sangam Prasain (kp 04/03/2019)
Gas
bottlers
threaten to disrupt supply over commission
dispute: To launch a protest if the government
does not fulfil their demands within 10 days,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 21/02/2019), LPG
outlets witness serpentine queues (ht
27/02/2019), Consumers
stock up on gas as commission row persists,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 01/03/2019), LPG
bottlers’
threat fuels panic buying: To carry out their
threat to halt supply, they’ve stopped
collecting papers to import cooking gas, by
Sujan Dhungana (ht 02/03/2019), Gas
bottlers boycott delivery orders to press their
case, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 04/03/2019)
Report
warns
food insecurity is still looming over country:
The National Planning Commission says the
average household spending on food still stands
at 54 percent of their total income,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 19/02/2019) [see NPC report]
Dolpa
locals happy at adequate stocks of rice: Free
competition among local businesspersons have
brought down the price, by Bishnu Prasad
Devkota (rep 24/01/2019)
Salt
Trading to buy 20k tonnes of sugar for buffer
stock, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 22/01/2019)
NOC’s
plan to expand fuel storage facility in limbo
(ht 29/12/2018)
Show
results Minister Yadav tells NFC staff (kp
04/12/2018)
Anti-theft
locks
fail to stop fuel theft: Last March, in an
effort to control fuel theft and leakage, the
NOC had installed security locking systems in
all tankers (kp 03/12/2018)
Sarkegadh
folk forced to walk 10 days to buy rice, by
Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp 21/11/2018)
Fertilizer
scarcity in Kailali: Farmers unable to sow seeds,
by Pushparaj Joshi (rep 06/11/2018)
Villagers
in remote Humla faceshortage of rice this Tihar,
by Jaya Bahadur Rokaya (kp 27/10/2018)
Himali
Rural Municipality reeling under food shortage
(ht 26/10/2018)
NOC
vows stable fuel supply during holidays (kp
16/10/2018)
Village
in eastern Rukum without a grain of rice, by
Lokendra Khanal (rep 13/10/2018)
75k
animals to be brought for Dashain slaughter
(kp 10/10/2018)
Rice
demand surges in Farwest districts, by
Mohans Budhair (kp 25/09/2018)
No
mercy for supply disrupters (rep 23/09/2018)
NOC
to end pvt sector’s monopoly (ht
22/09/2018), NOC
mulling alternative to fickle private tankers
(kp 25/09/2018)
Motorists
line up for fuel amid disruption, by Rajesh
Khanal and Anup Ojha (kp 21/09/2018), Strike
of transport workers disrupts petroleum supply
(rep 21/09/2018), Ration
system implemented (ht 22/09/2018), Fuel
supply to ease from today, by Sujan Dhungana
(ht 22/09/2018)
NFC
to bring 2000 goats, mountain goats for Dashain,
by Deepanjali Khadka (rep 15/09/2018), City
to receive 2,000 goats for Dashain (kp
18/09/2018)
STC
mulls buying domestic sugar (kp 13/09/2018),
Curb
on sugar import to hurt consumers, by Sujan
Dhungana (ht 18/09/2018), Decision
to
impose quotas on sugar imports slammed: Bowing
to pressure from private sugar mills, the
government raised the importduty on sugar to 30
percent from 15 percent in the last fiscal year
(kp 22/09/2018), That
would be sweet: Government policy should uphold
consumer satisfaction and not help the formation
of cartels, by Udayan Regmi (kp 26/09/2018)
Barekot
suffers food shortage, by Bhim Bahadur Singh
(kp 09/09/2018)
Delayed
consignment of fertilisers finally arrive at Dry
Port, by Shankar Acharya (kp 29/08/2018)
Households
under risk of food insecurity to get identity
cards, by Sagar Ghimire (rep 24/08/2018)
Nepal
Gas launches non-explosive cylinders (kp
21/08/2018)
Vulnerable
sections to get free, subsidised food (ht
21/08/2018)
NOC
revives plan to use colour-coded cylinders: The
state-owned oil monopoly says it makes a loss of
Rs280.64 on every cylinder of gas sold. It has
projected a loss of Rs250 million for next month
(kp 20/08/2018)
Thousands
of tons of sugar piling up at mills’ warehouses
as cheaper imports flood market, by Kamal
Bhatta (rep 16/08/2018)
Karnali
grapples with food scarcity (kp 14/08/2018)
Forever
hungry: Producing and distributing nutritious
food should be a political priority (kp
14/08/2018)
Children
are starving in Bajhang: Thousands of children
at risk from malnutrition in the remote
far-western district, by Basanta Pratap
Singh (kp 13/08/2018)
Province
3 facing 400,000 tons in food deficit (rep
09/08/2018)
Dolpa
locals refuse to buy subsidized rice due to high
price, by Bishnu Prasad Devkota (rep
31/07/2018)
Farmers
face fertiliser shortage once again, by
Bharat Jarghamagar (kp 26/07/2018), Nepal
to import fertiliser under govt-to-govt deal
(kp 27/07/2018)
Gamgadhi
villagers find bugs in rice bags, by Raj
Bahadur Shahi (kp 24/06/2018)
Fuel
import bill balloons to all-time high of
Rs131.93b (kp 12/06/2018)
Controversial
NOC chief Khadka quits (kp 08/06/2018), NOC
chief steps down (ht 08/06/2018)
Food
agency
bias denies Saipal villagers rice: Residents
accuse Nepal Food Corporation staff of selling
food to grain retailers and distributing rotten
rice to beneficiaries, by Basanta Pratap
Singh (kp 05/06/2018)
Government
begins process to form National Supply Company (ht
01/06/2018)
Nepal
faces deficit of 71,400 tonnes of food (kp
29/05/2018), Food
for thought: It is alarming that Nepal has slid
back to a food deficit country despite record
harvest (kp 30/05/2018)
Food
crisis hits Chepangs hard (ht 28/05/2018)
NFC
accused of creating rice crisis in Kalikot,
by Pabitra Kumar Shahi (rep 28/05/2018)
No
fear of fertiliser shortage, AIC says (kp
24/05/2018)
Barekot
reels under food shortage, by Bhim Bahadur
Singh (kp 22/05/2018)
69
cases related to food quality lodged at DAOs
(ht 21/05/2018)
Villagers
laud new food depot in Bajhang, by Basanta
Pratap Singh (kp 19/05/2018)
Curbing
fuel theft: NOC to implement locking system,
by Madhav Dhungana (kp 26/04/2018)
‘Hike
in duty on sugar may boost smuggling’ (kp
25/04/2018)
NOC
tells fuel transporters not to join protests
(ht 20/04/2018)
Sugar
import surges by over 80 percent, by Shankar
Acharya (kp 19/04/2018), Imported
sugar stranded at customs office: Consumers
affected, smugglers encouraged (ht
20/04/2018)
Locking
system
to be fitted on more tankers: Nepal imports all
its petroleum needs from India. Currently, 125
tankers bring in fuel through Nepalgunj and 250
tankers operate on the Bhairahawa route (kp
18/04/2018), Cases
of oil theft on rise in eastern Nepal, by
Binod Bhandari (kp 18/04/2018)
Acute
food crisis triggers migration (ht
14/04/2018)
Bottlers
drag their feet on updating safety measures
(kp 13/04/2018)
US
govt hands over food storage building to NFC,
by Shankar Acharya (kp 12/04/2018)
Saipal
villagers without access to iodised salt, rice
(kp 06/04/2018)
Diesel
theft
continues unabated: Per litre of diesel costs
Rs28 more in India than in Nepal, while
petrol is expensive by Rs22 per litre, by
Binod Bhandari (kp 02/04/2018)
Jajarkot
locals reeling under food crisis (ht
28/03/2018)
Security
locking systems installed on oil tankers (kp
15/03/2018), Transporters
obstruct fuel supply demanding wage hike (ht
16/03/2018)
Gas
bottlers warned to obtain NS certification
(kp 02/03/2018)
Over
50pc fuel tankers yet to instal security locks
(ht 20/02/2018)
Food
crisis looms over Bajura villages, by Arjun
Shah (kp 19/02/2018)
Food
crisis grips remote village of Barekot, by
Bhim Bahadur Singh (kp 17/02/2018)
NFC
misses procurement target due to low prices,
by Shankar Acharya (kp 15/02/2018)
All
gas bottling plants apply for NS mark (kp
15/02/2018)
Composite
LPG cylinders fail to find market as cost is
high (ht 01/01/2018)
People
in remote Humla face hardships to buy salt,
by Jaya Bahadur Rokaya (kp 28/01/2018)
Expired
goods sold to hilly markets (rep 20/01/2018)
Depot
construction
delays fuel shortage concerns: Construction
plans have been thrown into limbo due to
controversial land purchase deals made by former
managing director of NOC Gopal Bahadur Khadka
(kp 11/01/2018)
Govt’s
plan to substitute Indian LPG bullets fails to
materialise (ht 10/01/2018)
Chepang
village reeling under food shortage: People
surviving on a diet of stinging nettle, wild
roots and tubers (kp 08/01/2018)
Rice
supply delay hits remote Gorkha villages, by
Sudip Kaini (kp 02/01/2018)
Shortage
of essential medicines looms over Province 1
districts (kp 29/12/2017)
Food-hit
areas in Humla get subsidised rice, by Jaya
Bahadur Rokaya (kp 28/12/2017)
Relief
materials rot in storehouse while quake victims
battle with cold and hunger, by Bhagawati
Lama (rep 28/12/2017)
Half
of petrol pumps do not meet safety norms: NBSM
(kp 22/12/2017)
Fertiliser
shortage hits farmers in Western Tarai, by
Kamal Panthi (kp 21/12/2017)
Transformation
of supply mechanism crucial, by Sujan
Dhungana (ht 12/12/2017)
Nepal
starts getting more fertiliser, by Shanker
Acharya (kp 10/12/2017)
Fertiliser
shortage hits Saptari farmers (ht
09/12/2017)
Fuel
import bill jumps 40pc due to election (kp
06/12/2017)
Stranded
fertiliser being transported to Nepal (kp
05/12/2017)
LPG
demand lean this winter following smooth power
supply (ht 01/12/2017)
MoS
seeks MoF’s nod to allow National Trading to start
fuel trade (ht 27/11/2017)
Tall
order
for NOC to sustain ATF demand: With limited stock
facility, even a single-day supply disruption
likely to affect the market, by Sujan Dhungana
(ht 22/11/2017)
Nepal
urges India to send fertiliser to avert shortage
(kp 04/11/2017)
Food
Security Info System comes online (kp
04/11/2017)
Food
crunch hits Bajura, Humla (ht 30/10/2017)
Fertilisers
stuck at port as planting season nears, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 26/10/2017)
Farmers
likely to face fertiliser shortage in winter,
by Shankar Acharya (kp 16/10/2017)
Negligence
of staffers affects rice distribution (ht
14/10/2017)
Food
shortage hits hill districts in far-west (ht
13/10/2017)
NFC's
Jumla food depot empty, by DB Buda (rep
10/10/2017)
Far-west
reeling under shortage of fuel (ht
06/10/2017)
MoS
to implement dual pricing in LPG in near future
(ht 03/10/2017)
Cement
shortage hits hydel projects (ht 24/09/2017)
Fertiliser
stocks hit rock bottom, by Shankar Acharya
(kp 23/09/2017)
LPG
importers warn of protest from next week (kp
09/09/2017), Unresolved
‘non-explosive
licence’ issue may hit LPG supply: Gas bottlers
threaten strike from September 17 if the matter
is not settled within a week, by Sujan
Dhungana (ht 09/09/2017)
IBN
to
call for bids to build urea plant: The
feasibility report has pointed out the
possibility of using three types of energy
sources to produce urea fertiliser: natural gas,
electrolysis and coal (kp 06/09/2017)
STC
imports 25k tonnes of sugar for festivals
(kp 06/09/2017)
Feast
and famine: Nepal’s growing dependency on farm
imports should be assessed with food security,
by Bijendra Man Shakya (kp 05/09/2017)
High
and dry: Keeping food safe and available during
natural disasters is as important as rescue
efforts, by Peetambar Dahal, Durga D. Poudel
and Krishna Belbase (kp 03/09/2017)
Plan
to substitute Indian LPG bullets with Nepali
ones stalled (ht 30/08/2017)
Over
100 tonnes of food rushed to disaster areas (kp
17/08/2017)
Vegetable
supplies to Ktm down by 100 tons: Supply crunch
causes price hike, by Muna Sunuwar (rep
15/08/2017)
Govt
says no food shortage in disaster-hit areas
(kp 14/08/2017) [?????]
Distribution
of imported composite fiber gas cylinder faces
problem, by Ritesh Tripath1 (rep 14/08/2017)
Agro
import bill close to hitting Rs200b mark: The
country’s dependency on imported food has been
ballooning out of control, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 13/08/2017)
Petrol
pumps go on strike (kp 10/08/2017), Dealers
to halt petrol collection from today, by
Sujan Dhun gana (ht 10/08/2017), Gas
stations launch protest programme (kp
11/08/2017), NOC-petroleum
dealers deal: Petro dealers end protest (kp
12/08/2017)
Environmental
assessment being done for oil pipeline (kp
27/07/2017), Imports
for petro pipeline project get customs waiver
facility, by Sujan Dhungana (ht 27/07/2017)
Vegetable
market unshaken by obstructions along
Narayanghat-Mugling road, by Muna Sunuwar
(rep 24/07/2017)
Fuel
dealers’
syndicate affects supply, by Sujan Dhungana
(ht 20/07/2017), Oil
shortage ends after NOC pacifies dealers (kp
22/07/2017)
Food
grains
meant for quake-hit areas rot in warehouses
(kp 19/07/2017)
Gas
stations
refuse to purchase petrol, diesel (kp
19/07/2017)
Country
faces
deficit of 100k litres of milk daily (kp
18/07/2017)
Panel
submits
report on fuel loss during transport, by
Sujan Dhungana (ht 14/07/2017)
Fertiliser
supply
likely to reach all-time high (kp
12/07/2017)
NOC
to
build oil depots RETAIL PRICE in Nuwakot or
Dhading (kp 10/07/2017)
NOC
considers
construction of LPG storage facilities as per
Japanese technology (ht 08/07/2017)
Oil
dealers
call off planned protest (kp 04/07/2017), Dealers
inflate
fuel loss, claims NBSM: Petro dealers say they
will continue their protest and will stop
collecting fuel from NOC’s depot if the
government report is not convincing, by
Sujan Dhungana (ht 04/07/2017)
Threat
of
petrol shortage looms large, by Saurav
Bashyal (ht 02/07/2017)
Petro
dealers
likely to postpone protest (ht 01/07/2017)
Government
decides
to review rice supply policy, by Rupesh
Acharya (ht 29/06/2017)
No
supply:
Gas stations in Kathmandu run out of fuel
(kp 28/06/2017), Rush
on
gas stations eases as supply improves (kp
29/06/2017)
Perennial
shortages:
Boosting local food production - cereals,
vegetables, fruit and meat - and linking Humla
and other food deficit areas by road should
receive high priority (ht 28/06/2017)
Humla
local
reps in capital to revive rice supply, by
Rupesh Acharya (ht 27/06/2017)
Six
districts
in Nepal ‘highly food insecure’ (kp
25/06/2017), Report
shows 48 VDCs in mountains and high hills highly
food insecure, by Deepraj Sanyal (rep
25/06/2017)
Petro
dealers
threaten to halt distribution (ht
25/06/2017)
Gas
bullets
grounded for lack of licences (kp
23/06/2017), Operation
of
Nepali LPG bullets in limbo (ht 23/06/2017)
Govt
to
revise Supply Policy ’12 (kp 23/06/2017)
Farmers
hoarding
fertiliser may cause shortages: AIC (kp
22/06/2017)
Artificial
fuel
crunch hits Udayapur locals hard (ht
16/06/2017)
Security
lock
installed only on 300 fuel tankers (ht
14/06/2017)
STC
imports
sugar to boost reserves (kp 07/06/2017)
Food
for
Work distributes rice in Bajhang, by Basanta
Pratap Singh (kp 06/06/2017)
Fertiliser
crunch
hits farmers (ht 02/06/2017)
48
VDCs
identified as highly food insecure (ht
29/05/2017)
NFC
buys
106 tonnes of beans, buckwheat (kp
27/05/2017)
Voters
of
remote Bajura village demand rice before
election, by Arjun Shah (kp 26/05/2017)
NOC
making huge profit by overcharging consumers,
by Rudra Pandeni and Ashim Neupane (rep
23/05/2017)
Oil
tankers
to be fitted with high-tech locks (kp
16/05/2017)
Fertiliser
imports
from India to s begin early : AIC (kp
15/05/2017)
Dealers
flay
NOC plan to operate fuel stations jointly with
IOC (ht 15/05/2017)
Cement
industries
reduce production citing shortage of raw
materials (ht 13/05/2017)
NOC
to
expand fuel stocks for local polls (kp
06/05/2017), NOC
increases
storage capacities of diesel, petrol (kp
10/05/2017)
Motorists
crowd
pumps over fuel shortage fears: The state-owned
oil monopoly says there is no fuel shortage
(kp 19/04/2017), Valley
gripped
by artificial fuel shortage (ht 21/04/2017)
NOC
okays
proposal of five local firms to set up model
fuel pumps (ht 19/04/2017)
Nepal
Oil
Corp starts distributing Euro IV standard
petrol, diesel (ht 07/04/2017)
Rs72b
urea
plant to be et up in Nawalparasi: Nepal
imports 400,000-500,000 tonnes of urea annually,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 06/04/2017)
NOC
installing security lock in tankers to control
petroleum theft, by Dilip Poudel (rep
06/04/2017)
NOC
increases
scrutiny of fuel stations in East, by Binod
Bhandari (kp 05/04/2017)
Lives
at
risk: Death and injuries resulting from the use
of substandard gas cylinders must be stopped
(kp 04/04/2017)
First
urea
consignment reaches Birgunj by rail, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 03/04/2017)
Food
crisis
looms as drought cuts harvests (ht
02/04/2017)
NFC
to
sell rice earmarked for earthquake survivors
(kp 25/03/2017)
NFC
starts
producing rice to stabilise prices (kp
24/03/2017)
India
to
provide 30,000 tonnes of urea to Nepal: Farmers
require 61,000 tonnes of the vital farm input to
plant their spring crops during the mid-March to
mid-June season (kp 18/03/2017)
NOC
can import LPG from other countries: India has
remained sole supplier of petro prodcuts to
Nepal so far (rep 14/03/2017)
‘Include
provision
of compensation in the new Supply Agreement with
IOC’ (ht 14/03/2017)
‘Fuel
shortage’
fear grips Valley (ht 10/03/2017), ‘Panic
buying’
prompts gas stations to ration fuel (kp
11/03/2017)
Food
storage
facilities planned in 4 districts (kp
08/03/2017)
Rudhigaun
reeling
under food crisis, by Prakash Singh (ht
04/03/2017)
Salt
depot
to be set up at Rugin VDC (ht 03/03/2017)
Urea
shortage
likely to hit wheat output: Agriculture inputs
Company, the state agency responsible for
supplying fertilisers to farmers, has said it is
likely to receive fresh urea consignment only
after a month, by Kamal Panthi (kp
01/03/2017)
NFC,
STCL
set up depot to cater to people living in rural
areas, by Arjun Shah (kp 28/02/2017)
Basmati
rice
for Humla: With better transport link between
the hills and the plains food shortage in Humla
could be eliminated and food be made available
at a fraction of the current cost, by
Sukhdev Shah (rep 22/02/2017)
Long
queues
appear at gasoline stations (kp 20/02/2017),
Shortage
eases
after fuel supply doubled (kp 21/02/2017), Oil
tankers
deliberately disrupt supply (ht 22/02/2017),
House
panel
tells govt to resolve oil shortage (kp
23/02/2017), Agitating
petroleum tanker operators should be jailed:
Supplies secretary (rep 23/02/2017), Fuel
tanker
operators halt protests (ht 24/02/2017)
NFC
depot
in Salleri unable to sell 242 qunitals of rice
(kp 13/02/2017)
Chepangs
facing
food crisis, by Keshav Adhikari (ht
12/02/2012)
Rukum
health
posts reeling under medicines shortage (kp
05/02/2017)
Karnali
locals not happy with 20 kg rice, by DB Buda
(rep 04/02/2017)
Drug
shortage
in Solukhumbu: Even the District Public Health
Office is reeling under medicine shortage
(ht 03/02/2017)
NBSM
set
to operate high-tech calibration unit (ht
03/02/2017)
2
dozen VDCs in Jajarkot facing food shortage: NFC
has not supplied rice to the food-hit region
because its zonal office in Nepalgunj could not
agree on transportation fare (kp 02/02/2017)
[!!]
Bottlers
refuse
to import LPG (kp 30/01/2017)
Nepali
LPG
bullets to start supplying gas within a week
(ht 28/01/2017)
Supplies
ministry
seeks Rs 62bn to boost fuel storage capacity
(ht 25/01/2017)
What’s
cooking?
No LPG crisis this winter! An end to
load-shedding leads to fall in demand for gas
(ht 24/01/2017)
Food
security
situation likely to deteriorate (ht
22/01/2017)
Nepal
Oil
Corporation brings new fuel distribution bylaw
(ht 20/01/2017)
Drought-stricken
villagers
receive rice grains (rep 19/01/2017)
Western
districts
face shortage of cooking gas, by Amrita
Anmol (kp 15/01/2017)
NOC
allots
Rs117b for new fuel storage plants (kp
12/01/2017)
Bajura
locals
demand rice, salt depots (ht 07/01/2017)
LPG
bottlers
lack incentive to step on the gas to get NBSM
accreditation: Of 53 companies operating across
the country, only one has acquired Nepal
Standard certification in over a month, by
Sujan Dhungana (ht 31/12/2016)
2,600
gas
dealers in Valley certified in one year (ht
30/12/2016)
Food
depots in rural Jumla without rice since a
decade: Locals; People forced to buy rice at
higher price, by DB Buda (rep 28/12/2016)
Fight
against
hunger: Govt and development partners should
ensure enough food reaches deficient areas
(kp 22/12/2016), Chronic
neglect:
Programmes such as food for work need to be
launched to provide immediate relief to the
locals (ht 23/12/2016)
31
VDCs
classified as highly food insecure: An estimated
34,000 residents in these VDCs require
humanitarian assistance due to lasting
impacts of the April-May 2015 earthquakes
(kp 21/12/2016)
LPG
bottlers
ask for removal of tanker import hurdles (kp
20/12/2016), Nepali
LPG
bullets stuck in Birgunj for three weeks (ht
20/12/2016), Nepali
gas bullets stuck in Birgunj customs to be
released, by Dilip Paudel (rep 29/12/2016)
NOC
to
import Euro IV petrol, diesel from April next
year (kp 19/12/2016)
20
kg
rice to families for birth or death functions in
Karnali region (ht 15/12/2016)
Bajura
villages
reel under salt shortage (kp 14/12/2016)
Chepangs
seek
resettlement from famine-hit Brushbang (ht
12/12/2016)
Food
shortage
looms large over Jajarkot villages, by Bhim
Bahadur Singh (kp 08/12/2016)
NFC
chief
Shrestha recalled (kp 07/12/2016)
Subsidised
rice
demand lowers with road link: 17,000 quintals of
surplus rice in Mugu, Kalikot, Jumla, by
Janak Nepal (kp 06/12/2016)
NFC
to
buy beans, grains from farmers in Karnali
(kp 06/12/2016)
Diesel
smuggling
reports: Ministry intensifies checks of tankers,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 05/12/2016), Govt
to
depute inspection teams at small customs (kp
08/12/2016)
NOC
urges
consumers not to go after fuel shortage rumours:
The petroleum monopoly’s call comes at a time
when the Valley is witnessing panic buying
of petrol and diesel (kp 03/12/2016)
7,000
quintal rice lies undistributed in NFC warehouse
(rep 03/12/2016)
Gas
bottlers
to boost storage capacity (ht 01/12/2016)
Transporters
start
installing security locking system in fuel
tankers: The system is expected to control
possible leakage of petro products, by Sujan
Dhungana (ht 25/11/2016)
Demand
for
iron and steel skyrockets (ht 24/11/2016)
Salt
shortage
rumours set off panic buying, by Birendra KC
(kp 23/11/2016), Kaski
reeling
under salt crunch (ht 23/11/2016)
Govt
to
build fuel storage plants in all 75 districts
(kp 14/11/2016)
STC
dismisses
salt shortage rumours: The state-run salt
supplier says it has stock for over six months
(kp 13/11/2016)
Prolonged
drought
causes food crisis in three districts (ht
12/11/2016)
Security
forces
okayed to operate tank trucks, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 11/11/2016)
Euro
IV
standard petrol, diesel from April 17 (ht
11/11/2016)
Fewer
bullets
carrying LPG to Nepal, by Sujan Dhungana (ht 08/11/2016), Indian
suppliers
deny reducing number of bullets supplying LPG:
Sources claim NLPGIA president's earlier
statement may have been intended to create havoc
and to create an artificial shortage, by
Sujan Dhungana (ht 09/11/2016)
Severe
drought
triggers food crisis in Mugu, by Prakash
Singh (ht 08/11/2016)
Govt
to
allow NTL to start petro trade with China
(ht 07/11/2016)
NOC
to
supply Euro IV standard petro products from
mid-2017 (ht 05/11/2016)
Low
crop
production behind perennial food shortage in
Baitadi: Baitadi needs to produce extra 22,500
metric tonnes of food grains annually to address
the shortage, by Khagendra Awasthi (kp
04/11/2016)
NOC
to
end import quota imposed on LPG (ht
27/10/2016)
Climate
change
threatens food safety, experts warn (kp
25/10/2016), Food
security:
Govt must adopt policies to ensure Nepal meets
its food requirements (kp 26/10/2016)
‘Self-reliance
in
rice production soon’ (ht 25/10/2016)
Call
to
tap into natural resources in Mustang, by Binod Tripathi (kp 23/10/2016)
Darchula
reeling
under food deficit, by Manoj Badu (kp
23/10/2016)
Feeding
the
millions: Problem of food insecurity in Nepal
can be minimised by adopting various scientific
and indigenous techniques, by Yubak Dhoj GC
(kp 20/10/2016)
MoS
plans
to build petroleum storage facilities in all
provinces under PPP model (ht 20/10/2016)
Govt
to
introduce non-explosive Composite LPG cylinders,
by Sujan Dhungana (ht 19/10/2016)
GHI
rates
Nepal’s hunger as ‘serious’ (kp 15/10/2016)
[see report findings for Nepal],
Decline
in
hunger: There is no reason for Nepal to miss the
target if all-out efforts are made in
agriculture and also in their distribution
(ht 17/10/2016)
Food
imports
balloon as local output stalls, by Thakur
Singh Tharu (kp 15/10/2016)
Country
may
face shortage of construction materials: Crisis
could trigger spike in prices once rebuilding
activities start gathering pace, by Rupak D.
Sharma (kp 14/10/2016)
2
more oil depots to be built to boost reserves:
The government is currently making preparations
to allow the Nepal Army to build a petroleum
storage facility at Panchkhal in Kavrepalanchok
district, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 08/10/2016)
Govt
issues
licences for 15 modern petrol pumps (kp
08/10/2016)
The
goat
rush: No sign of Nepal becoming self-sufficient
in goat meat anytime soon, by Shreejana
Shrestha (nt 07/10/2016), Goats
for
Dashain: Let’s hope Nepalis will get to
celebrate Dashain in the future with
domestically produced goat meat, by
Jagannath Adhikari (kp 09/10/2016)
Food
crunch
hits Jajarkot locals (ht 06/10/2016), Jajarkot
NFC depot runs out of rice, by Janak KC (rep
06/10/2016), Freed
Haliyas
reeling under food crisis, by Prakash Singh
(ht 06/10/2016) [Nepal's
inactive political overlords wish all affected
people a very happy Dashain!!]
STC
imports
1.2k tonnes of sugar, by Shankar Acharya (kp
03/10/2016)
Obstructed
roads
hit food supply hard (ht 30/09/2016)
Govt
mulls
setting up automatic fuel pumps, by Sujan
Dhungana (ht 29/09/2016)
NFC
starts
airlifting food to drought-hit Humla, by
Thakur Singh Tharu (kp 28/09/2016)
North
Gorkha
sans subsidised grains (kp 28/09/2016)
Forever
Famished:
Every
year, Humla’s chronic food shortfall makes the
headlines. Could new projects linking the
district to China break the cycle?, by
Rajneesh Bhandari (kp 24/09/2016)
Bajura
villagers
stare at food shortage ahead of Dashain: Last
year’s drought has left hundreds of hectares of
farmland barren in villages like Kolti, Sappata,
Jukot, Wai, Badhu Rugin and Gotri, by Arjun
Shah (kp 22/09/2016), Bajura
VDCs
hit hard by food crunch (ht 23/09/2016)
Fuel
deliveries
increased after rush on the pumps (kp
21/09/2016)
Locals
face food crisis as rice rots at NFC godown,
by Jagat Khadka (rep 17/09/2016)
Gas
bottlers
unwilling to import LPG from Odisha (kp
14/09/2016)
NFC
unable
to transport rice to drought-hit Humla, by
Jaya Bahadur Rokaya (kp 09/09/2016)
Four
new
LPG bottlers registered so far this FY (kp
05/09/2016)
Food
insecurity
looms in 212 VDCs: MoAD (ht 31/08/2016)
Monitoring
team
seizes underweight gas cylinders (kp
27/08/2016)
NFC
accused
of jacking up price of aid rice in Bajhang
(kp 25/08/2016)
NOC
demands
land for storage plants, pipeline (kp
25/08/2016)
POL
Products: Distribution Mechanism In A Clutter,
by Uttam Maharjan (rn 25/08/2016)
Four
Karnali
districts facing acute food shortage (ht
22/08/2016)
NOC
fails
to expand storage facility despite repeated
shortages (ht 21/08/2016), End
disruptions:
The storage capacity for fuel should be built so
as to last for at least three months’ supply of
petroleum products (ht 22/08/2016), NOC:
Shortage
caused by ‘short-term supply upset’ (kp
23/08/2016), Fuel
woes:
Recurring gasoline shortages in the Capital call
for a durable solution (kp 24/08/2016)
Govt
‘selling’
rice meant for quake victims, by Tekendra
Deuba (ht 20/08/2016)
NOC
awards
contract to expand Thankot (kp 16/08/2016)
Govt
will
reconsider scrapping of fuel import permits: PM,
by Bibek Subedi (kp 07/08/2016)
House
panel
tells Supply Ministry to allow gas bottlers to
obtain bullets, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
03/08/2016), House
panel
directs government not to halt process of
purchasing LPG bullets (ht 03/08/2016)
2,000
families
could face food shortage in Sindhupalchok
(kp 03/08/2016)
Grant
rice
stuckat NFC warehouses (kp 27/07/2016)
Cooking
gas
imports drop by almost half, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 27/07/2016)
Govt
scraps
fuel permits issued to private firms (kp
22/07/2016), ‘Example
of
policy inconsistency’ (kp 25/07/2016)
Nepal
slides
back into food deficit, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 20/07/2016)
Food
for
thought: Ration card for the poor is a good
idea, but it is the implementation that counts
(kp 06/07/2016)
Preps
being
made for ration card, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
03/07/2016)
Rule
Of Anarchy, by Nandalal Tiwari (rn
27/06/2016)
NOC
plans
to import additional 10,000 tonnes of LPG in
July (ht 27/06/2016)
Circulation
of
poor-quality LPG cylinders puts consumers at
risk, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 18/06/2016), Breaking
point:
Lax regulations and negligence have turned LPG
cylinders into accidents waiting to happen,
leaving consumers playing a dangerous game of
Russian roulette, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
25/06/2016)
Ministry
bans
HP Gas from importing LPG, by Rajesh Khanal
(kp 16/06/2016), LPG
bottlers
warn of halting supply, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
17/06/2016), Defying
existing
laws, bottlers announce halting LPG imports,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 21/06/2016), Gas
bottling
plants’ decision to launch protest draws flak:
Government calls the move to halt imports of LPG
‘insensitive’ (ht 21/06/2016), Protesting
gas
bottlers reject delivery orders (kp
22/06/2016), LPG
bottlers
call off protests (kp 23/06/2016)
Food
security
monitoring system handed to govt (kp
14/06/2016)
Remote
Humla
villages stare at food crisis: Govt has started
transporting rice to the drought-hit districts,
but the NFC has been unable to ferry rice to the
affected areas (kp 14/06/2016)
Nepal
Food
Corporation to diversify business (kp
13/06/2016)
Govt
sends
rice to drought-hit areas: The government has
declared ‘Karnali Special Programme’ and decided
to distribute rice in the affected villages
(kp 07/06/2016)
Jajarkot
facing
acute food shortage (ht 05/06/2016)
Pregnant
women,
new mothers and children bear the brunt of food
crisis, by Prakash Singh (ht 04/06/2016
Food
crisis
hits Humla hard (ht 03/06/2016)
Four
PEs
to be merged to form new supply company (kp
01/06/2016)
Govt
fails
to enforce law to ensure urgent service: In
violation of Essential Services Act, transport
entrepreneurs go on a strike to protest hike in
traffic rule violation fines, by Manish
Gautam (kp 27/05/2016)
NFC
seeks
additional money to supply food to drought-hit
districts (kp 26/05/2016)
Govt
committee
to study gas card system (kp 25/05/2016)
Consumer
forum
seeks strict rules for manufacture of gas
cylinders (ht 25/05/2016)
Chepang
community
facing starvation (ht 23/05/2016)
14
districts
in Mid West stare at ‘food shortage’, by
Prakash Adhikari (kp 22/05/2016)
Food
shortage
looms in Mugu (kp 18/05/2016)
Beijing
‘sends’
freight train for Nepal: Departed from Lanzhou
as first combined transport service to Kathmandu
on Wednesday, by Sanjeev Giri (kp
13/05/2016), Goods
brought
by Chinese train reach Rasuwagadhi, by
Krishna Thapa (kp 23/05/2016)
Fuel
and
food: Excessive reliance on import for basic
commodities can have dire outcomes (kp
11/05/2016)
LPG
shortage
prolongs as supply from India continues to be
erratic (ht 11/05/2016), IOC
agrees
to increase cooking gas supply (kp
12/05/2016), IOC
reluctant
to supply LP gas from Paradip refinery, by
Sujan Dhungana (rep 16/05/2016)
Card
system
in the offing to manage LP gas distribution,
by Sujan Dhungana (rep 11/05/2016)
NOC
mulls
allowing gas sellers to swap any brand of
cylinders (kp 06/05/2016)
Country
faces
shortfall of ‘55,000 tonnes’ of cooking gas
(kp 05/05/2016)
LP
gas
storage facilities to be set up across the
country, by Sujan Dhungana (rep 05/05/2016)
NOC
giving
short measure of fuel, says probe team (kp
04/05/2016)
Consumers
warned
against hoarding petro products, by Sujan
Dhungana (rep 04/05/2016)
Panel
to
study possible oil imports from China (kp
03/05/2016)
Supply
of
cooking gas fails to ease (ht 03/05/2016)
Black
market
fuels crisis of cooking gas: DoSM (kp
29/04/2016)
Shortage
forces
valley’s gas stations to innovate, by Zenith
KC (kp 28/04/2016)
Desperate
housewives
and unending gas shortage woes, by Zenith KC
(kp 27/04/2016)
Conspiracy
of
silence: It is the man in the street who wants to
get the product – gas, petrol or diesel at the
official rate who is bearing the brunt of the
shortage (ht 26/04/2016)
Valley
faces
petrol shortage again: Inefficient monitoring has
created fuel shortage and encouraged
black-marketeers (ht 25/04/2016) [No Indian help needed?]
Only
1,700
gas depots certified (kp 22/04/2016)
LPG
still
hard to find despite rising imports, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 18/04/2016), Govt
to
revive card system for LPG sales (kp
23/04/2016)
Gas
company
supplying cylinders to influential people (rep
13/04/2016)
Food
shortage
hits Mugu villages, by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp
12/04/2016)
Fuel
pump
owners accused of black-marketing (ht
12/04/2016)
LPG
bottlers
threaten government to halt supply (ht
11/04/2016)
Concession
sought
on import of gas bullets (ht 08/04/2016)
Gas
bottlers
accused of prolonging LPG crisis, by Pushpa
Raj Acharya (ht 07/04/2016), Govt,
gas
bottlers blame consumers for LP gas shortage
(rep 07/04/2016)
Govt
probes
price hikes, shortage of edible oils (kp
06/04/2016)
NOC
to
hire 50 more gas tankers to boost imports
(kp 05/04/2016), Public
still
desperate for LPG despite ample supply, by
Sujan Dhungana (rep 05/04/2016)
Acute
cooking
gas shortage: ‘Over 500k’ new cylinders might
have entered mkt, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
04/04/2016)
Govt
runs
out of gas while enforcing rules LPG shortage
recurs, as government fails to scrap licences of
more than 50 errant bottling plants, by
Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht 02/04/2016)
Call
to
allow consumers to swap any brand of cooking gas
cylinder (kp 02/04/2016)
NOC
to
India: Supply extra 15k tonnes of LPG (kp
30/03/2016)
Embargo
fears
set off gasoline panic buying: Rumours about a
possible embargo started flying from Sunday,
leading nervous motorists to besiege gasoline
stations almost immediately, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 29/03/2016)
Traders
scramble
to deliver food to drought-hit Karnali, by
Arjun Shah (kp 27/03/2016)
Famine
looms
in far-western districts (ht 26/03/2016)
Shortage
of
sands and aggregates another stumbling block in
development works (rep 26/03/2016)
Fuel
shortages
in East as workers protest (kp 26/03/2016)
High-level
panel
formed to probe LPG shortage (kp 25/03/2016)
Economists
find
proposal to procure only 33% of fuel demand from
China faulty, by Sujan Dhungana (rep
25/03/2016)
Locals
hit
hard as food crisis looms large in Bajura
village (ht 24/03/2016)
NOC
asks
bottling plants to hire more gas bullets to
import LPG (ht 24/03/2016)
Still,
short-supply (ht 23/03/2016)
Bottlers
say
no alternative to increasing LPG supply (ht
22/03/2016)
Deuba
dares
government to crack down on black-marketeers,
by Prakash Rimal and Prakash Acharya (ht
20/03/2016)
Police
start
direct supervision of LPG distribution (kp
19/03/2016)
NOC's
12
KL consignments short of 200 liters, say dealers
(rep 19/03/2016)
Oil
licences
issued to pvt firms scrapped (kp
18/03/2016), Birat
Petroleum
inflated input costs, reveals PAC (ht
18/03/2016)
Far-west
food
depots sans staff (ht 18/03/2016)
Manang
villagers
stop buying NFC’s subsidised rice over quality
concern, by Aash Gurung (kp 16/03/2016)
Black-marketing
of
fuel unabated in Rautahat, authorities
indifferent (ht 16/03/2016)
Diesel
in
short supply as NOC cuts deliveries: The
state-owned oil monopoly has been supplying only
350-400 kilolitres of diesel daily compared to
the requirement of 500 kilolitres, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 15/03/2016), Black
marketeering
of diesel on the rise, by Binod Bhandari and
Awadesh Kumar Jha (kp 15/03/2016), Diesel
shortage
hits development projects (rep 15/03/2016)
Fuel
crisis
hits factories along Birgunj-Pathlaiya
industrial corridor hard (ht 12/03/2016)
Queues
at
oil pumps will ‘disappear in a few weeks’
(hp 11/03/2016)
NOC
to
expand Thankot depot’s storage capacity (ht
11/03/2016), Capacity
of
Thankot depot to be boosted (kp 16/03/2016)
Fuel
supply
from India normalising (ht 10/03/2016)
BPPL
to
get NOC nod to sell petrol (ht 08/03/2016),
NOC
breaks
rules to allow BPPL to sell petrol, by
Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht 11/03/2016), Govt
still
allowing Birat to sell fuel at arbitrary rate,
by Sujan Dhungana (rep 11/03/2016), PAC
orders
MoS to supply clarification: NOC’s ‘unilateral’
move to let pvt company sell petrol fuels
controversy, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
12/03/2016), PAC
seeks
clarification from MoS for letting BPPL sell
petrol (ht 12/03/2016), MoS
clarification
on Bppl case overlooks import cost details
(ht 15/03/2016)
Far-west
reeling
under fuel shortage (ht 06/03/2016)
Stations
to
distribute fuel from morning (ht 06/03/2016
Waiting:
The
promise of being Nepali is an eternal longing, a
wait so long no one knows when, or if, it will
ever end, by Pranaya SJB Rana (kp
05/03/2016)
Supply
Situation: Leaves Much To Be Desired, by
Uttam Maharjan (rn 03/03/2016)
We
won’t
raise fuel supply: IOC to NOC, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 03/03/2016), IOC
increases
fuel supplies to Nepal (kp 07/03/2016)
Bottlers
get
NOC nod to acquire gas bullets (kp
02/03/2016)
Drama
Government
Plays In Fuel Supply, by Siddhi B. Ranjitkar
(km 03/03/2016)
Food
shortage
stares Karnali folk: Water sources drying up n
Drought worst in remote districts in 40 yrs
(kp 29/02/2016), No
quick
fix: Karnali needs a long-term solution to the
drought-induced food insecurity (kp
01/03/2016), Govt
will
act before starvation looms large in Karnali:
Gajurel (ht 09/03/2016) [??]
Food
security
strategy to tackle food crisis in Bajura (ht
29/02/2016), Food
crisis
hits remote Bajhang villages, by Jagat
Khadka (rep 29/02/2016)
Mugu
locals
making do without iodized salt, by Suman
Malla (rep 29/02/2016)
IOC
assures
regular LPG supply from today: IOC has reduced
the supply for the past week, citing technical
problem at its Barauni-based depot (kp
29/02/2016)
Not
enough
to eat: Food scarcity has impact on social,
economic, cultural and educational aspects of
public life, by Raj Pariyar (kp 28/02/2016)
Boosting
fuel
storage capacity to 3 mths’ supply: NOC
estimates cost of Rs28b (kp 28/02/2016)
Fuel
black-marketing
hits transport operators (ht 27/02/2016)
Food
crisis
looms large in far-west hilly districts (ht
25/02/2016)
Motorists
still
have a hard time filling their tanks (kp
25/02/2016), NOC
fails
to follow minister’s instruction (ht
26/02/2016)
Cooking
gas
shipment halted by worker unrest, by Harihar
Singh Rathaur (kp 25/02/2016)
Food
crisis
hits Mugu as NFC fails to lower price, by
Suman Malla (rep 24/02/2016)
Breaking
IOC
monopoly: NOC holding talks with India’s
Reliance; During the embargo, the Indian
state-owned oil company had cut fuel supplies by
as much as 90 percent, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
24/02/2016)
NOC
instructed
to develop new storage facilities (ht
24/02/2016)
Birat
brings
further 132KL petrol, out to sell at Rs 155 per
liter: NOC allegedly not easing supply to compel
consumers to buy Birat fuel, by Sujan
Dhungana (rep 24/02/2016)
Rice
meant
for relief rotting in food corporation godown
(ht 24/02/2016)
Govt
removes
restrictions on fuel distribution (kp
23/02/2016), Fuel
rationing
to end from today to shorten queues (ht
23/02/2016)
‘Food
insecurity
persists’: there remains a pressing need for
assistance in mountain and hill areas, according
to a UN report (kp
Govt
likely
to resume sales of full gas cylinders (ht
22/02/2016)
LPG
bottlers
face shortage of cylinder: Due to panic
buying triggered by a shortage of
cooking gas, a large number of households have
been hoarding cylinders, by Harihar Singh
Rathaur (kp 21/02/2016)
India
supplying
just 60pc of LPG demand, says NOC (kp
20/02/2016)
Days
Of Scarcity Are Not Over Yet, by Uttam
Maharjan (rn 18/02/2016), Stalled
market
monitoring allows black-marketing to flourish in
capital, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht
18/02/2016), Fuel
crunch
still reigns in Valley: Consumer activists
suspect continued deflection to black market,
by Sujan Dhungana and Sagar Ghimire (rep
18/02/2016), NOC
unlikely
to fulfil its earlier pledge, by Pushpa Raj
Acharya (ht 19/02/2016), Passing
the
buck: The black market will continue to rule the
roost until the government makes its concerned
ministries and agencies accountable to the
public (ht 19/02/2016) [This will never happen under he current
generation of failed politicians!!]
Bajhang
faces
drugs shortage, by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp
15/02/2016)
NOC:
LPG
supplies will be regularised within a week
(kp 15/02/2016), NOC
doubles
supply of petrol to fuel stations (ht
15/02/2016), Valley
pumps
still dry despite improvement in fuel supply,
by Sujan Dhungana (rep 15/02/2016)
Gas
stations
to sell fuel from today (kp 13/02/2016)
Government
scraps
quota system for fuel distribution: Fuel will be
available from both private and
state-owned pumps in the Kathmandu Valley
from Friday (kp 12/02/2016), Fuel
distribution
to be regular from today, by Pushpa Raj
Acharya (ht 12/02/2015)
Fuel
shortage
continues in east Nepal, by Raju Adhikari
(rep 12/02/2016)
Full
cooking
gas cylinders available in black market: LPG
bottlers, Nepal Oil Corporation officials claim
they are unaware of the irregularities, by
Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht 11/02/2016)
NOC
expects
fuel supply to ease (kp 11/02/2016)
137
fuel
laden tankers, two gas bullets enter country via
Birgunj (ht 11/02/2016)
95
fuel
tankers enter via Birgunj (ht 10/02/2016)
Seize
the
day: With oil prices down, government should
consider introducing a new levy on petroleum
products, by Bibek Raj Kandel (kp
09/02/2016)
NOC
writes
to IOC to scrap tanker rerouting (kp
08/02/2016)
Raxaul
depot
likely to supply petrol, diesel, LPG from today:
To take 15-30 days to normalise fuel, cooking
gas availability, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht
08/02/2016)
Half-filled
LPG
cylinders: Cooking gas bottlers divided (kp
06/02/2016)
Humla
folk
face difficulty in absence of NFC depots, by
Jay Bahadur Rokaya (kp 05/02/2016)
Allowing
frims
to import fuel for self-use: Supply Ministry
okays working guidelines, by Rajesh Khanal
(kp 04/02/2016)
Import
of
LPG up with rerouting of bullets (ht
02/02/2016)
Motorbikes,
cars
to get fuel every alternate week, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 01/02/2016)
Cooking
gas
stock enough to half-fill 1.2m cylinders: NOC
(kp 30/01/2016)
‘Govt
under
control of fuel mafia’ (kp 29/01/2016)
Bottlers
fail
to furnish LPG distribution details (kp
26/01/2016)
Birgunj
border
reopens: Carts loaded with goods entering Nepal
from India during night (ht 25/01/2016), Obstruction
continues
at Birgunj-Raxaul point: Vehicles entering Nepal
through other crossings, by Bhusan Yadav (kp
26/01/2016)
‘Regular’
fuel
distribution in Valley from next week: Oil
monopoly now has enough fuel in stock for
distribution in the Capital on a regular basis,
albeit in reduced quantities, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 25/01/2016)
Black-marketing
of
petro-products rampant (ht 24/01/2016)
Lack
of
records results in fuel coupon misuse, by
Thakur Singh Tharu (kp 23/01/2016)
NOC
asks
district depots to divert fuel to Valley (kp
22/01/2016), NOC
explores
possible options to normalise fuel situation,
by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht 22/01/2016)
Black
market
flourishes as state mechanism ceases to function
(ht 22/01/2016)
CIAA
to
NOC: Regularise fuel distribution (kp
21/01/2016)
Food
crisis
looms over Sindhupalchowk quake victims, by
Dhruba Dangal (rep 21/01/2016)
IOC
refuses
to boost fuel supply: IOC has refused to issue
fuel from depots other than Raxaul citing
inadequate stock, according to NOC (kp
21/01/2016)
Oil
slump:
While the world rejoices the plunge in oil
prices, the reality for Nepal is entirely
different, by Bibek Raj Kandel (kp
20/01/2016)
Unscrupulous
Elements Reigning Supreme, by Narayan
Upadhyay (rn 20/01/2016)
Half-filled
cylinders:
Supply Ministry urged to scrap the practice,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 20/01/2016)
Darchula,
Parbat
reel under medicine crisis, by Manoj Badu
(kp 18/01/2016)
Shipments
of
fertilisers start: 63,000 tonnes of chemical
fertilisers have been stranded at the Kolkata
Port (kp 17/01/2016)
42
pc
jump in LPG import fails to touch consumer
plight, by Sujan Dhungana (rep 16/01/2016)
Trade
eased
but market still facing shortages, by Binod
Bhandari and Parbat Portel (kp 15/01/2016)
Fuel
shortage
unlikely to ease till supply from Raxaul
normalises (ht 15/01/2016), Supply
returning
to normal along Eastern border points (ht
15/01/2016)
Locals
feeding
on mouldy rice (ht 15/01/2016)
Bajura
villagers
face severe crisis of food: According to
District Food Security Network, 60 to 80 percent
of people in 10 VDCs in the district are
affected by the shortage, by Arjun Shah (kp
14/01/2016)
Not
enough
bricks for reconstruction works (ht
14/01/2016)
Govt
to
sell rice received in grant for quake survivors,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 12/01/2016)
Govt
mulls
halting fuel import permit issuance (kp
11/01/2016)
Kolkata
port
halts loading of Nepal-bound cargoes, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 11/01/2016)
Humla
reeling
under acute food crisis, by Prakash Singh
(ht 10/01/2016)
Fuel
shortage
hits development projects (ht 10/01/2016)
Oil
flows
swell as restrictions ease, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 04/01/2016)
NFSMS
sees
improvement in food security situation in
quake-hit districts (rep 04/01/2016)
Illegally
hoarded
food grains seized in capital (ht
02/01/2016)
Rice
yet
to reach earthquake victims (ht 31/12/2015)
NOC
head’s
move certain to raise some eyebrows: Depot
chiefs directed not to disclose stock position
of fuel; Officials told not to distribute fuel
to private vehicles, by Pushpa Raj Acharya
(ht 31/12/2015), Fuel
crisis
shows no sign of easing: Number of tankers
coming in with petroleum products on the rise
(ht 31/12/2015)
NFC:
Bug-free
rice is being sent to quake survivors, by
Sudip Kaini (kp 29/12/2015)
NOC
to
obtain bullets to bring gas from China, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 26/12/2015)
NFC
rice
starts rotting in godown, by Raj Bahadur
Shahi (kp 24/12/2015)
Bad
business:
Govt decision to allow all and sundry to import
fuel sets a dangerous precedent (kp
24/12/2015)
Cooking
gas
distribution: 8 cops injured as clash flares up
in Kirtipur, by Manish Gautam (kp
23/12/2015)
Energy
security
strategy: Fuel crisis prompts govt to mull 15-yr
plan, by Sanjeev Giri (kp 23/12/2015)
15
medicines-laden
cargoes enter via Rupaidiha in 10 days, by
Thakur Singh Tharu (kp 22/12/2015)
Valley
getting
4pc of LPG demand, by Rajesh Khanal /kp
22/12/2015)
Smuggling
of
gasoline rampant in border villages, by
Madhav Dhugana (kp 21/12/2015)
350
trucks
of drugs still stuck (kp 19/12/2015)
NOC
to
start SMS service for fuel queue (kp
18/12/2015)
NBSM
accused
of letting off errant petrol pumps as
black-marketeering rises, by Narendra
Adhikari (kp 16/12/2015)
Bottlers
supplying
gas only to their near and dear ones (kp
15/12/2015)
Cargoes
rerouted, by Shnkar Acharya (kp 14/12/2015)
Cargo
flow
better via Nepalgunj-Rupaidiha border point,
by Rajendra Nath and Thakur Singh Tharu (kp
13/12/2015)
Fuel
imports
remain at just 30pc of demand (kp
12/12/2015)
Prospective
oil
importers yet to bring 1st shipment, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 10/12/2015)
Black
marketeering
goes unchecked, by Anup Ojha (kp 09/12/2015)
Govt
to
build 3 depots to boost reserves (kp
09/12/2015)
Under
the
counter: Black marketeering of petroleum
products needs to be curbed, supplies normalised
(kp 08/12/2015)
Free
the
market: The private sector should be allowed to
sell varied quality of petrol at different
prices, by Sujeev Shakya (kp 08/12/2015)
Shortages,
price
hike hit Kathmandu dwellers, by Suman
Bashyal (kp 01/12/2015)
Govt
to
purchase, sell food grains, by Prakash
Acharya (kp 01/12/2015)
82
oil
tankers enter Nepal (kp 29/11/2015)
Govt
likely
to give sack to NOC chief: Khadka under fire for
failing to ease fuel crisis, speed up China deal,
by Bhadra Sharma and Rajesh Khanal (kp 28/11/2015)
NOC
to
sell fuel only through petrol pumps (kp
26/11/2015)
Shortage
of
construction materials: KMC sees no decrease in
building permit applications (kp 26/11/2015)
Bid
to
ensure distribution of fuel: Set up inspection
desks at pumps, panel tells govt (kp
25/11/2015)
Youths
offer
free meal service in Capital, by Anup Ojha
(kp 24/11/2015)
Petrolimex
likely
to start aviation fuel supply this week (kp
24/11/2015)
Cereal
imports
expected to hit record 855,800 tonnes, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 24/11/2015)
Bureaucratic
ways
untouched by public plight, by Arjun Poudel
(rep 23/11/2015)
Police
crack
down on LPG hoarders (ht 21/11/2015)
Locals
wait for cooking gas for days, by Rishiram
Baral (ht 21/11/2015)
Normalise
drugs
supply, House panel tells govt (kp
21/11/2015), Morcha
violates
own decision to let medicine cargo pass (kp
21/11/2015)
Shortage
of
petroleum products: Crisis-hit disabled rue govt
apathy, by Anup Ojha (kp 19/11/2015), Goons
block
LPG supply at refilling plants, by Rudra
Pangeni and Sujan Dhungana (ht 19/11/2015), Pokhara
reeling
under drug crunch as dealers run out of stock
(ht 19/11/2015), Health
minister
warns drugs suppliers (kp 19/11/2015), 'Finance
Ministry
agrees to pay duty of essential medicines',
by Arjun Poudel (rep 19/11/2015), Daily
essentials
crunch hits far-west (ht 19/11/2015)
Central
Medical
Store unable to supply drugs, by Shankar
Acharya (kp 18/11/2015), No
stock,
say importers, by Manish Gautam (kp
18/11/2015),
Drugs
worth
millions rotting at TIA customs, by Arjun
Poudel (rep 18/11/2015) [Dump
all these politicians into a dust bin as soon as
possible!!]
NOC
distributes
300,000-plus litres of petroleum products
(ht 18/11/2015)
Acute
shortage
of daily necessities hits Banke district, by
Tekendra Basyal (rep 18/11/2015)
Bangla
bondhu:
The planned Nepal-Bangladesh oil trade could
help break the Indian fuel monopoly, by Y.B.
Thapa (kp 18/11/2015)
Gorkha
to
set up paddy storage for quake victims, by
Sudip Kaini (kp 17/11/2015)
Birgunj
dry
port waives storage, parking fees, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 17/11/2015)
18
fuel
tankers enter Nepal (kp 17/11/2015), Govt
promoting
black market in fuel: Industrialists, by
Kuvera Chalise and Sujan Oli (rep 17/11/2015), Where
is
the fuel going?, by Ajit Tiwari (rep
17/11/2015), Import
of
supplies through Jogbani border back to normal,
by Binod Subedi (rep 17/11/2015), Nepal’s
humanitarian
response: Best amongst worst options, by
Suresh Acharya (ht 17/11/2015)
Govt
sells
firewood: Only a few hundred get logs from 2 TCN
depots, by Gaurav Thapa (kp 16/11/2015), Govt
starts
selling firewood amid fuel crisis (ht 16/11/2015), 121
fuel
tankers enter from south (kp 16/11/2015), Flow
of
cargo-laden vehicles from India increases
(ht
16/11/2015), ‘China
ready
to send gas via Tatopani’ (kp 16/11/2015), China
proposes
to bring gas bullets directly to Panchkhal
(ht
16/11/2015)
Bottlers
accused
of selling LPG at random: Authorities fail to
take proper measures to ensure smooth supply of
half-filled cylinders (kp 15/11/2015)
Cooking
gas
shortage: More Nepali households switch to
electric cookers, by Binod Bhandari and
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 15/11/2015)
NRNA
for
immediate end to ongoing humanitarian crisis
(kp
11/11/2015), Lift
blockade
without delay, says Ban Ki-moon (rep 11/11/2015), AYON
launches
text message campaign (kp 11/11/2015), Red
Cross
concerned over shortage of essential commodities
(rep
11/11/2015), Homeless
and
cold but no zeal to rebuild: Sindhupalchok
awaits help to reconstruct flattened homes,
by John Narayan Parajuli (kp 11/11/2015), Shortage
of
essentials worries ICRC, donors (ht 11/11/2015), Fuel
shortage
affects Red Cross services (kp 11/11/2015), Myagdi
district
reels under acute drug shortage, by Hari
Krishna Gautam (rep 11/11/2015), Goods
start
coming in via Rasuwagadhi, by Rudra Pangeni
(rep
11/11/2015), Let
actions
speak: It is high time that the government came
up with a concrete strategic plan to ease the
supply situation (ht 11/11/2015)
NOC
mulls
fuel import from Bangladesh, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 11/11/2015) [Through
Indian territory??]
Humanitarian
crisis:
NHRC seeks help from around globe: Says supply
disruption depriving Nepalis of economic, social
rights (kp 09/11/2015), NHRC
urges
int’l community to help ease humanitarian crisis
in Nepal (rep 09/11/2015), Hard
times:
Basic goods are scarce and the general public is
badly suffering, by Dikshya Singh Rathour
(rep
09/11/2015), With
supplies
halted, key drugs running out of stock: Experts
say act violates people’s right to health,
by Manish Gautam (kp 09/11/2015), Shortage
of
medicines hits health services: Containers
carrying medicines have been stranded at Indian
border points for the past one and a half months
(kp
09/11/2015)
Petromax
likely
to start ATF supplies by Thursday (kp
09/11/2015), Birat
Petroleum
cancels controversial supply deal: The petroleum
company had run into controversy following
reports that the prices quoted by it were way
high (kp 09/11/2015), Birat
cancels
deal with NOC (ht 09/11/2015)
Petro
Politics In Nepal, by Charlotte Benham (rn
07/11/2015)
Nepalis
refuelling
vehicles in towns across border, by Bhawani
Bhatta (kp 07/11/2015)
Far-west
reeling
under fuel crisis (ht 07/11/2015)
NAC
agrees
to airlift fuel for five more days, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 07/11/2015), Petromax
to
airlift ATF from tomorrow, by Pushpa Raj
Acharya (ht 07/11/2015)
NOC
slammed
for awarding fuel import contract to Birat,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 06/11/2015), NOC
admits
flouting law in contract award to Birat Oil,
by Sujan Dhungana (rep 06/11/2015), PAC
seeks
details of fuel import plan, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 07/11/2015), PAC
seeks
details of progress made to import fuel (ht
07/11/2015)
A
pain in the gas, by Gunjan Upadhyay (rep
06/11/2015)
NOC,
pvt
companies reach fuel supply deal, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 05/11/2015), Private
vehicles
to get fuel today (ht 05/11/2015)
4,500
LPG
cylinders distributed in Pokhara, by Lal
Prasad Sharma (kp 05/11/2015)
Nepal-China
oil
deal: NOC invites PetroChina for talks (kp
04/11/2015), PetroChina
officials
invited for talks (ht 04/11/2015)
Food
shortage
looms large in Mugu: Dry spell has raised food
shortage fear in the district where around 90
percent people are involved in agriculture,
by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp 03/11/2015)
LPG
to
be distributed only though dealers (kp
03/11/2014)
Private
autos
to get fuel from Thursday, by Rajesh Khanal
(kp 03/11/2015)
Fuel
crisis
affects food supply to Karnali districts, by
Nagendra Upadhyay and Arjun Oli (rep 02/11/2015)
12
tankers
arrive from Kerung: Bring in 80,000 litre petrol
in first lot; Customs issues resolved, by
Krishna Thapa (kp 02/11/2015), Cargo
stuck
at ICD Birgunj starts being dispatched (ht 02/11/2015), ‘The
crisis
at this time can lead us to seek alternatives
for the long term’, interview with Commerce
Minister Ganesh Man Pun (ht 02/11/2015)
Cooking
gas
crisis leaves public high and dry: The
distribution of LPG was left at the mercy of a
limited number of distributors, by Suman
Bashyal (kp 01/11/2015), Consumers
queue
for cooking gas, return empty-handed (ht
01/11/2015), 50k
LPG
cylinders distributed: NLPGIA (kp
02/11/2015), 15
LPG bullets enter (ht 02/11/2015)
Black
marketing
of fuel rampant, by Laxmi Gautam (kp
01/11/2015)
Around
300,000
litres fuel distributed (ht 31/10/2015)
Unsafe
storing
of fuel threatens lives, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 30/10/2015), Shortage
of
foodstuffs hits Palpa villages, by Madhav
Aryal (kp 30/10/2015), Fuel
crisis
hits foreign missions (kp 30/10/2015), Dhading
locals
prevent gas shipments to Valley, by Harihar
Singh Rathore (kp 30/10/2015), Biggest
fuel
flow from IOC in 5 wks: 131 tankers arrive from
south a day after historic Nepal-China oil deal,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 30/10/2015), 100t
of
grant petrol arriving on Saturday (kp 30/10/2015), Tankers
to
leave for Kyirong today (ht 30/10/2015), A
landmark deal (ht 30/10/2015), Escape
plan:
The country needs a strategy to break away from
the stranglehold some countries have over Nepal,
by Shyam KC (kp 30/10/2015)
Markets
start
running short of daily goods, by Suman
Bashyal (kp 29/10/2015)
Bottlers
allowed
to sell half-filled LPG cylinders (kp
29/10/2015), Distribution
begins
today, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 31/10/2015)
Dearth
of
essential drugs hits Sarlahi, by Aman
Koirala (kp 28/10/2015)
Fight
against
hunger: Ensuring food security means increasing
accessibility too, not only boosting output,
by Prakash Budha Magar (kp 28/10/2015), Food
security:
Emerging priority, by Jhabindra Bhandari (ht
28/10/2015)
China
set
to be Nepal’s 2nd oil trade partner:
Eight-member government team heads to Beijing
for negotiations, by Sangam Prasain (kp 27/10/2015), Nepal
Oil
Corporation tells transporters to keep fuel
tankers on standby (ht 27/10/2015), First
consignment
likely this week (kp 27/10/2015)
Taskforce
on
Bhairahawa Special Economic Zone: Ban on
strikes, regular power supply suggested (kp
27/10/2015), Schools
on
the verge of closure: All private institutions
in Valley would be shut at least till mid-Nov if
fuel supply does not improve immediately, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 27/10/2015), Fuel
crisis:
Bandipur hit hard, by Anup Ojha (kp 27/10/2015)
Govt
team
to hold talks on petro products import from
China: Delegation leaving for Beijing to seal
G2G deal, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht
26/10/2015), Nepal
asked
to take 1KT fuel by Nov 25: NOC officials say
fuel transport through Kerung-Rasuwagadhi
‘technically feasible’, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 26/10/2015), 'Supply
of
grant fuel from China within one or two days'
(rep
26/10/2015), 127
tankers
come from south (kp 26/10/2015), Fuel
shortage
affects of delivery of humanitarian aid: OCHA
(rep 26/10/2015)
Govt
to
procure fuel from China: China pledges 1,000
tonnes of fuel as subsidy to Nepal,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 25/10/2015)
Black
marketing
of petroleum products goes unchecked in
Rupandehi (kp 24/10/2015)
Kathmandu
receives
140,000 lt diesel, 20,000 lt aviation fuel
(ht 22/10/2015)
Free
the
market: The fuel crisis is a result of the
monopoly of Nepal Oil Corporation over the
import of petroleum products, by Umanga
Pandey (kp 20/10/2015)
Fertilisers
worth
Rs6b stranded at Birgunj Dry Port, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 19/10/2015)
Distribute
fuel
fairly: House panel to govt (ht 19/10/2015)
NOC
to
reroute stuck gas bullets via Sunauli border,
by Devendra Bhattarai (kp 18/10/2015)
Valley
denizens
reel under fuel shortage: Informal sector and
labourers affected most during the crisis,
by Anup Ojha (kp 18/10/2015)
Supply
of
Himalayan sheep, goats shrinks, by Shiva
Sharma (kp 17/10/2015), NFC
starts
selling goats, sheep for Dashain feast (kp
17/10/2015)
NOC
in
fix as bidders quote high price, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 16/10/2015), Nepal
Oil
Corp fails to hand over fuel supply contract
(ht 17/10/2015)
Fossil
fuel
crisis unlikely to be resolved soon, by
Sujan Dhungana (rep 16/10/2015)
IOC
cuts
fuel supply again (kp 16/10/2015)
LPG
costs
double on black mkt, by Harihar Singh
Rathore (kp 16/10/2015)
Kathmandu
folk
reach Dhading for refuelling (kp
15/10/2015), Rumours
prompt
long petrol queues, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
15/10/2015)
Setting
up
new oil storage depots: Security agencies
propose over a dozen strategic locations, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp15/10/2015) [There should also be depots
close to the Chinese border!]
Rice
shortage
hits north Gorkha once again (rep
14/10/2015)
Pvt
vehicle
owners wrestle for fuel: Many return
empty-handed despite the NOC distributing huge
quantities of fuel from Valley depots in 12 days,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 14/10/2015)
NOC
seeks
to import fuel from China, by Sujan Dhungana
(rep 14/10/2015)
‘Boost
oil
storage capacity fourfold’ (kp 14/10/2015)
Cooking
gas
shortage: Coil heaters, briquettes seen as
alternatives, by Anup Ojha (kp 13/10/2015)
Fuel
flow
from India increases (kp 13/10/2015), Private
vehicles
to get up to 20 l fuel today (ht 13/10/2015), Supply
eases
as border points open (ht 13/10/2015), SSB
halts
supplies through Biratnagar customs again,
by Binod Subedi (rep 13/10/2015)
Food
crisis
grips Chepang villages, by Bimal Khatiwada
(kp 11/10/2015)
PAC
tells
govt to resolve fuel crisis without delay
(ht 11/10/2015)
Enough
fuel
for festive rush: NOC (kp 11/10/2015)
63
oil
tankers, gas bullets enter Nepal (kp
10/10/2015), 39
tankers
enter via eastern Nepal (ht 10/10/2015)
NOC’s
low
storage capacity partly blamed for fuel crisis
(ht 10/10/2015)
Nepal
Airlines
Boeing brings fuel: NAC’s Boeing 757 aircraft
made two roundtrips to Kolkata, India; Defueling
the aircraft will yield at least 20 tonnes after
leaving enough in its tanks to conduct its
regular flights (kp 09/10/2015), NOC
invites
global tender for fuel supply (kp 09/10/2015)
Fuel
rationing
to be revised from today (ht 09/10/2015)
ISPs
feel
the heat from petroleum shortages (kp
09/10/2015)
91
tankers,
12 LPG bullets enter Nepal (kp 08/10/2015)
Goat
supply
to come down (kp 08/10/2015)
Dearth
of
medicine hits health services, by Shankar
Acharya and Manoj Paudel (ht 08/10/2015)
Govt
mulls
over importing fuel from China (ht
06/10/2015)
Taxi
drivers
hit hard by fuel shortage, by Riwaj Rai (rep
06/10/2015), Acute
shortage
of essential medicines hits eastern region
(rep 06/10/2015)
Blockade,
energy
shortages goad country into looking for
solutions, by Sanjeev Giri (kp 05/10/2015)
India
decides
to lift restrictions, by Devendra Bhattarai
(kp
04/10/2015) [But India had
claimed that there were no restrictions!?],
Border
points
to open in a day or two, by Pushpa Raj
Acharya (ht 04/10/2015), 10
petrol
tankers, 70 containers enter Nepal: More
awaiting clearance (kp 04/10/2015), Shortage
of
cooking gas: ‘40pc of hotels, restaurants shut’
(kp
04/10/2015, Top
hotels
running out of fuel, food stock, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 04/10/2015), Fuel
crisis
hits hydels (ht 04/10/2015)
3-day
fuel
sale restriction on pvt vehicles, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 01/10/2015), Private
vehicles
barred from purchasing fuel (ht 01/10/2015), Govt
studying
options to airlift aviation fuel, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 01/10/2015), LPG,
fuel
crunch affects Tanahun (ht 01/10/2015), Gas
shortage
hits Pokhara hotel business, by Rup Narayan
Dhakal (ht 10/09/2015), Eastern
hilly
region reeling under shortage of daily
necessities goods, by Giri Raj Baskota (rep
01/10/2015), Fuel
crisis
hits ambulances also, by Ramesh Kumar Poudel
(rep 01/10/2015)
Fuel
crisis
worsens: Even-odd vehicle plying in place,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 27/09/2015), Fuel
rationing
begins: Petrol pumps asked to keep records to
avoid duplication in distribution, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 28/09/2015), LPG
shortage
worsens as bullets stuck on Indian side (kp
28/09/2015), Ministry
terms
fuel crisis an ‘emergency’ (kp 29/09/2015))
IOC
refuses
fuel delivery to Nepal: IOC depots restrict
supply to Nepal citing reasons including
mechanical failure or traffic congestion due to
strike in Tarai, by Rajesh Khanal (ht
26/09/2015)
Agitators
in
Tarai block essential supplies (ht
26/09/2015), Tanahun
reeling
under urea shortage (ht 26/09/2015), Gasoline
shortage
hits Kanchanpur, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp
26/09/2015)
Govt
to
ensure essential supplies, public safety, by
Lekhanath Pandey (ht 25/09/2015)
Govt
report
highlights state of food security (ht
25/09/2015)
After
multiple
disasters: Food insecurity, by Komal Raj
Aryal (ht 24/09/2015)
Valley
may
face shortage of goods this Dashain, by
Suman Bashyal (kp 24/09/2015), NOC
dispatches
fuel exceeding daily demand (ht 24/09/2015)
Khotang
facing
acute dearth of daily essentials (ht
24/09/2015)
Blockade
fears
set off panic buy, by Suman Bashyal (kp
23/09/2015)
Shortage
looms
large in festive season: Traders have stopped
importing goods due to unrest in Tarai, by
Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht 22/09/2015)
Validity
of
daily market monitoring raises brows (ht
17/09/2015)
Consumers
could
face LPG shortage as import declines (ht
14/09/2015)
Cooking
gas
shortage in Birgunj, by Ram Sarraf (ht
12/09/2015), Fertiliser
crunch
hits Tanahun farmers (ht 12/09/2015)
Bandh
causes
shortage of daily necessities (ht
10/09/2015)
Udayapur
traders
running out of commodities (ht 08/09/2015)
Cooking
gas
‘shortage’ starts to grip Kathmandu Valley,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 02/09/2015), Fuel
shortage
affects vehicular traffic (ht 02/09/2015), Valley
starts
to witness shortage of essentials: Government
promises to ensure supply is not affected due to
ongoing protests in Tarai (ht 02/09/2015), Wholesalers
‘running
out of food stocks’, by Suman Bashyal (kp),
Tarai
protests
trigger fertiliser shortage (ht 04/09/2015),
Tankers,
trucks
travel under police escort, by Shankar
Acharya (kp 05/09/2015), Valley
faces
cooking gas shortage (ht 07/09/2015)
Sindhupalchok
classified
severely food insecure (kp 02/09/2015)
Quake-hit
districts
at risk of food insecurity, by Pushpa Raj
Acharya (ht 01/09/2015)
Import
from
China, India stalls as festive season draws
close, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 29/08/2015)
Bajura
villagers
face acute shortage of food items (ht
29/08/2015)
Shortage
of
fuel continues in Kathmandu Valley (kp
28/08/2015)
Cargo
movement
comes to a halt in Birgunj (ht 27/08/2015),
Capital
stares
at shortage of essentials, by Rajesh Khanal
(kp 27/08/2015)
Fruits,
veggies
in short supply due to strikes (kp
27/08/2015)
Daily
essentials
crunch hits far-west (ht 13/08/2015)
Subsidised
rice
‘sold’ midway: Locals say foodstuff being
ferried to Humla from Gamgadhi was sold to
hotels in Bam and Chankheli in Mugu, by Raj
Bahadur Shahi (kp 12/07/2015)
Damaged
roads
halt rice supply (kp 06/07/2015)
Food
crisis
looms large in Humla, by Jay Bahadur Rokaya
(ht 05/07/2015)
Villages
stare
at famine as rice rots in depots, by
Tekendra Deuba (ht 04/07/2015)
Nepal’s
rice
imports balloon to Rs12 billion (kp
02/07/2015)
Govt
sees
food surplus of 155,558 tons this year, by
Sujan Dhungana (rep 18/06/2015)
Food
falls:
Food security in quake-hit areas is a concern as
70 percent of households have seen partial or
total loss of food stock, by Bhairab Raj
Kaini (rep 17/06/2015), 32
district
face food deficit (kp 18/06/2015)
Social
Protection For Food Security And Development,
by Lok Nath Bhusal (rn 16/06/2015)
Construction
materials
could be on short supply once reconstruction
starts, by Sujan Dhungana (rep 12/06/2015)
After
quakes,
food insecurity risk grows, as monsoon nears
(ht 09/06/2015), FAO
warns
of food insecurity risk in post-quake scenario
(ht 09/06/2015)
Soaring
prices:
Govt to import, supply pulses, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 08/06/2015)
Mosquito
nets
in short supply as rains near (kp
06/06/2015)
Traders
told
to weigh LPG cylinders before delivery, by
Lila Ballav Ghimire (kp 04/06/2015)
‘No
fertiliser
shortage this year’ (kp 02/06/2015)
Milk
shortage
foreseen due to cattle deaths (kp
02/06/2015)
Sufficient
food
stock for monsoon, says DoSCM (kp
29/05/2015)
Constant
vigilance:
The WFP must make dead certain that it is not
distributing substandard food (kp
28/05/2015)
Petroleum
stock
sufficient to last a month-and-a-half: NOC
(ht 24/05/2015)
Preparation
on
to stock food, fuel for six months: Thapa
(ht 23/05/2015)
WFP
barred
from distributing rice in quake-hit areas Quantity
of broken rice was more than set standard (ht
23/05/2015)
Food
stock
in short supply, meds stuck in centre (kp
20/05/2015), Agriculture
ministry
projection: Nepal needs 215,400 tonnes of food for
next 3 months (kp 20/05/2014)
Country
has
enough foodstock for this fiscal, by Pushpa
Raj Acharya (ht 18/05/2015)
Commerce
Dept
to manage ample stock of essentials, by
Rajersh Khanal (kp 16/05/2015)
Rising
food
imports ring alarm bells (kp 19/04/2015)
NOC
seeks
CIAA support to carry out cylinder verification,
by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht 19/04/2015), NOC
to
buy bullets to
ensure LPG supplies, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
21/04/2015)
Ministries
told
to become strict with LPG bottlers, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 06/04/2015), LPG
sellers
linger to obtain certification (kp
09/04/2015)
Subsidised
rice
in short supply in eastern hills (kp
03/04/2015)
Food
depot
in Rugin of Bajura relieves locals (ht
02/04/2015)
MoF
asks
NOC to submit reform plan (ht 29/03/2015)
NOC
mulling
using Nepali companies to transport LPG (kp
28/03/2015)
DoCSM
grills
NOC, pumps on adulterated oil, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 25/03/2015)
Govt
plans
to make country self-reliant in milk, meat
(kp 20/03/2015)
Dearth
of
essential goods hits Mugu, by Raj Bahadur
Shahi (kp 17/03/2015)
Five
LPG
bottlers asked to withdraw cylinders: DoCSM cracks
down on out-of-Valley bottling plants for short
supply (ht 17/03/2015)
LPG
depots
in Valley, Dhanusha planned , by Rajesh Khanal
(kp 17/03/2015)
Police
to
run LPG bottling plant: Move aimed at boosting the
govt’s supply capacity during crises, by
Manish Gautam (kp 15/03/2015), Pvt
bottlers
oppose move (kp 16/03/2015)
NOC’s
bid
to address LPG shortage (kp 13/03/2015)
LPG
still
hard to get despite govt’s claims, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 07/03/2015)
NOC
delays
revising cooking gas import quota (ht
06/03/2015)
Bottlers
miss
LPG import quota again (ht 01/03/2015)
Cylinders
failing
weight standards to be seized, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 25/02/2015), Weigh
cylinders
before delivery (kp 06/03/2015)
Gasoline
not
only scarce, but also of poor quality, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 24/02/2015)
Lawmakers
blame
LPG dearth on unholy nexus (kp 23/02/2015)
Cooking
gas
shortage: Overuse of LPG by vehicles blamed
(kp 16/02/2015)
27pc
of
veggies, fruits imported from India, by Suman
Bashyal (kp 14/02/2015)
Govt
takes
step to build LP gas storage plants, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 06/02/2015)
Rice
shortage
hits folks hard; depots out of stock (ht
02/02/2015)
Fuel
crisis
hits far-west hard; vehicles not plying (ht
02/02/2015)
LPG
supply
far from normal: NOC claims daily import up from
40k to 70k cylinders; Dual pricing system put on
hold, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 29/01/2015), NOC
starts
distribution of LPG from ‘specific areas’ (kp
30/01/2015), Call
for
smooth LPG supply grows louder (ht
31/01/2015), Inadequacy
of
bullets caused crisis: Bottlers (kp
01/02/2015), Supply
Dept
to deploy
four monitoring teams, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
02/02/2015), Gas
shortage
persists despite direct distribution (kp
03/02/2015)
Surkhet
suffered
from food insecurity due to floods (kp
29/01/2015)
India
tells
IOC to boost LPG supplies to Nepal, by
Devendra Bhattarai (kp 28/01/2014)
Absent
state:
Govt must take stringent actions against private
sellers hoarding gas (kp 28/01/2015), Govt
directed
to waive VAT on LPG (kp 28/01/2015)
Artificial
shortage
of salt adds to villagers’ misery, by bArjun
Shah (kp 28/01/2015)
LP
gas
shortage: Teku depot overrun by folk seeking
refill, by Anup Ojha and Rajesh Khanal (kp
27/01/2015)
NTL
set
to distribute cooking gas from today (ht
25/01/2015), Govt
starts
selling LPG through Nat’l Trading (kp
26/01/2015)
Locals
set
up cooperative to fight food crisis (ht
23/01/2015)
IOC
pledges
to dispatch 100 bullets of cooking gas per day
next week (ht 23/01/2015)
Prompt
action
against LPG hoarders (kp 22/01/2015)
Cooking
gas
to be available in two weeks: Kaski CDO (kp
22/01/2015), LPG
shortage
hits Tanahun folks hard (ht 22/01/2015)
IOC
told
to boost Nepal’s LPG quota to 30k tonnes, by
Devendra Bhattarai (kp
20/01/2015)
Govt,
bottlers,
dealers in blame game as LP gas supply worsens,
by Sujan Dhungana (rep 16/01/2015)
Famine
looms
large in Jajarkot, by Bhim Bahadur Singh (kp
15/01/2015)
Vegetable
shipments
affected by banda (kp 14/01/2015)
LPG
shortage
due to hoarding: NOC (kp 08/01/2015), Lawmakers
inspect
gas plants, dealers, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
08/01/2015), Cooking
gas
crunch hits all and sundry, by Sangam Prasain
and Rajesh Khanal (kp 09/01/2015), Govt
criticized
for doing nothing to ease LP gas supply (rep
09/01/2015), LP
gas
bottlers found causing artificial crunch, by
Sujan Dhungana (rep 10/01/2015), Dhading
LPG
plants monitored (ht 11/01/2015), Shortage
of
cooking gas on: Gas bottlers, dealers blame
eachother of cooking up scarcity story, by
Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht 12/01/2015), Sans
accountability (ht 12/01/2015), Govt
steps
in to eases hortage of LPG: Central monitoring
committee formed to check anomalies in supply
chain (ht 14/01/2015)
Govt
intensifies
scrutiny of LPG bottling plants (kp
06/01/2015)
Pokhara
reeling
under LPG shortage for months (ht 06/01/2015)
NOC
increases
import quota of LPG for Jan: Gas
dealers’federation withdraws all protest
programmes announced earlier (ht 06/01/2015)
House
panel
tells govt to ensure fuel supplies (rep
03/01/2015)
NOC
starts
supplying fuel from Bhalbari depot (kp
02/01/2015)
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