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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