February 9, 2010
 Japan Extends Food Aid to Nepal
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The Government of Japan has agreed to extend a Grant Assistance of six hundred and eighty million yen (¥680,000,000), equivalent to Five hundred Sixty-six million and Four hundred Forty thousand Nepalese Rupees (NRs.566,440,000), or approximately Seven million Six hundred and Nine thousand US dollars (US$7,609,000), to the Government of Nepal for Food Aid (KR) in the Japan’s Fiscal Year 2009.
His Excellency Mr. Tatsuo MIZUNO, Ambassador of Japan to Nepal, and Mr. Rameshore Prasad Khanal, Secretary of the Ministry of Finance have signed and exchanged the Notes today on behalf of their respective Governments.
The Assistance is provided with the basic objective of enabling the Government of Nepal to procure rice and supply it to the food deficit districts. The Nepal Food Corporation (NFC) is to distribute it through its national distribution network.
Japan, being a development partner to Nepal, has been providing Food Aid to Nepal for the last several years. Food Aid is one of the oldest schemes of the Government of Japan, and, as of Japan’s Fiscal Year 2009, the Government of Japan has extended cumulatively Food Aid to Nepal, worth 8.94 billion Japanese Yen.
HE Mr. Tatsuo MIZUNO expressed his wish that the extended food assistance will help the Government of Nepal in addressing the urgent need in food deficit districts and in easing the difficulties felt by local people in their daily life. It will, thus, further contribute to the moving ahead of the peace process in Nepal.
HE Mr. MIZUNO also expressed his belief that the Food Aid shows the Japanese people’s wishes for further improvement of well-being of the Nepali people.
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