Question: Nepal imports vegetables every year from India worth rupees-
(a) 50 billion
(b) 55 billion
(c) 60 billion
(d) 65 billion
Ans: (b)
Related facts:
- On 23 January 2017; Nepal government has launched a 10-year-plan to cut dependence on vegetable imports from India and make the land-locked country self-reliant in food.
- Vegetable imports from India have continued to increase even despite the far-western region seeing a rise in commercial vegetable farming.
- According to the report, the region imports vegetables worth 55 billion rupees every year from India.
- Exports volume, however, was negligible.
- According to the Regional Plant Quarantine at Gadda Chauki – the second important border trading point with India after Birgunj.
- Potatoes worth 370 million rupees were imported annually.
- Green vegetable imports stand at 180 million rupees.
- Belauri, Krishnapur, Jhalari, Mahendranagar and Mahakali are some of the major vegetable producing areas in Nepal.
- According to District Agriculture Development Office (DADO), vegetable is cultivated on 4,450 hectares in Kanchanpur and the output is 56,000 metric tonnes annually.
Reference:
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/nepal-launches-10-yr-plan-to-cut-vegetable-imports-from-india/1/864331.html
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/nepal-launches-10-yr-plan-to-cut-vegetable-imports-from-india-117012300432_1.html