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Market Watch - 12
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This issue of Market Watch- 12 consists of the following highlights: 1)A 13-day bandh in the Terai disrupted markets in Kailali, Banke and Parsa and caused severe supply scarcity and food security distress in various hill and mountain feeder markets including: Ilam, Dadeldhura, Baitadi, Bajhang, Achham, Bajura and Udayapur. 2)During the month, nearly 40 percent of hill and mountain markets surveyed had insufficient or depleted supply of coarse rice; mountain markets had no maize while only 15 percent of hill markets had sufficient supply of maize; and nationally only 40 percent of markets had sufficient cooking fuel/ kerosene supply. 3)At a national level the price of most key food commodities remained high during March, but were generally stable compared to February.
Publisher:
MoAC, FNCCI, CIPF, WFP ,   (2009 )
Type / Script:
Bulletin or Poster in English
Keywords:
RURAL MARKET, FOOD PLANNING, FOOD TRANSPORTATION, POOR HARVEST, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, PRICE DEVELOPMENTS, FOOD POLICY, PRICE AND AVAILABILITY, LARGEST PRICE CHANGES, FOOD SHORTAGES, NATIONAL MARKET DEVELOPMENTS, FUEL SHORTAGE, STAPLE FOOD COMMODITIES, FOOD PRICE, INFLATION
Thematic Group:
 WFP : Food and Emergency humanitarian logistict support
Thesaurus:
04.01.01  -  Agricultural Economics And Policy; Rural Sociology
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