State-run food company to skip goat sales this Dashain

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Nepal’s state-run food company will skip goat sales for Dashain, citing repeated losses and transport disruptions that make the trade too risky. It is selling sugar below market price and increasing the customer purchase limit to 25 kilograms.

The company says repeated losses and transport disruptions have made goat trading too risky; it is selling sugar Rs16 a kg below market prices and raising the purchase limit to 25 kg per customer.