The Agriculture, Cooperatives and Natural Resources Committee under the Federal Parliament has directed the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development to ease supply of grains during lockdown.

The directive aims to ensure supply of agriculture produces to customers during lockdown, said the Committee’s chair Purna Kumari Subedi. The committee has drawn the attention of the government amid reports that farmers are destroying milk and agriculture produce for failure to find buyers due to lockdown, she said.

The Committee demanded that the government makes arrangements for collection and sale of milk in a safe way and supply it to factories to make powdered milks.

Likewise, the Committee concluded that the farmers have incurred big losses as agriculture produces have failed to get the market due to the lockdown, referring to banana farmers of Kailali district facing the brunt of lockdown in particular.