The government approved separate proposals for procuring some 90,000 tons of fertilizer and 20,000 tons of lentils on Wednesday to meet Bangladesh's growing demand.
The approvals came from a meeting of the interim government's purchase committee.
The meeting was chaired by Finance and Commerce Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed at the Secretariat.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, the finance adviser said the day's meeting approved four proposals for procuring fertilizer and lentils.
"We will not allow declining the supply of fertilizer in the country," he said.
Dr Salehuddin also informed that the consignments of fertilizer and lentil would be brought to the country as early as possible.
Cabinet Division officials said following three separate proposals from the Industries Ministry, the Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) would procure some 30,000 tons of bulk granular urea fertilizer from Fertiglobe Distribution Limited, the UAE, under the state-level agreement under the 11th lot in FY24 with around Tk121.95 crore with per ton fertilizer costing US$344.50.
The BCIC will purchase 30,000 tons of bagged granular urea fertilizer from KAFCO, Bangladesh with around Tk117.79 crore for the current fiscal year (FY25) with per ton fertilizer to cost $332.75 while the BCIC would procure another consignment of 30,000 tons of bulk granular urea fertilizer from Muntajat, Qatar under the first lot of state-level agreement for the current fiscal year (FY25) with around Tk120.06 crore with per ton fertilizer costing $339.17.
In response to another proposal from the Ministry of Commerce, the state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) would procure 20,000 tons of lentil from Nabil Naba Food Products Ltd. Dhaka under local Open Tender Method (OTM) with around Tk203.72 crore with per kilogram of lentil costing Tk101.86.
