Two million tons of rice will come from Vietnam

 It includes 50 thousand metric tons of boiled rice and onion rice, two lakh metric tons. The Ministry of Finance has approved a proposal for this in the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday in the Secretariat.In the meeting chaired by Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, another 15 offers were approved in the meeting.After the meeting, Additional Secretary of the Cabinet Division Mustafizur Rahman told reporters that 50 thousand metric tons of rice and 2 lakh metric tons of asp rice would be brought at the government-to-government level, from Vietnam.He said that every metric ton would cost 470 US dollars. And 50 thousand metric tons of pure rice will cost US $ 2.6 million. Which is about 195 crore 5 lakhs in Bengal currency.To bring the antique rice per metric ton (Chittagong-Mongla) will cost 430 US dollars. And the total expenditure on 2 lakh metric tons of rice has been estimated at 8 crore 60 million US dollars. There are about 713 crore 80 lakhs of Bangladeshi coins.