The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase has approved several proposals to buy and import fertiliser to ensure uninterrupted supply to the country’s farm sector.
The proposals were approved at the committee’s 47th meeting, held on Thursday in the Cabinet Division conference room at the Secretariat in Dhaka and chaired by Finance Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury.
The meeting considered 19 proposals from various ministries and divisions, seven of them for fertiliser purchases under the industries and agriculture ministries.
Under the industries ministry, the committee approved three proposals to buy 110,000 tonnes of granular urea.
Of this, 30,000 tonnes of bagged granular urea will be bought from Karnaphuli Fertilizer Company Limited (KAFCO), Bangladesh, at a cost of Tk 162.39 crore. The price is $438.125 a tonne, including a bagging charge of $5. This is the third lot of fertiliser purchased for the 2026-27 financial year.
The committee also approved importing 40,000 tonnes of bulk granular urea, plus or minus 10 percent, from SABIC Agri-Nutrients of Saudi Arabia at a cost of Tk 228.90 crore, or $463.17 a tonne.
A further 40,000 tonnes of bulk granular urea, plus or minus 10 percent, will be imported from Fertiglobe of the United Arab Emirates at a cost of Tk 269.56 crore, or $545 a tonne.
Under the agriculture ministry, four proposals were approved for importing non-urea fertiliser through the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) under government-to-government agreements.
Two of them are for importing triple superphosphate (TSP) from OCP Nutricrops SA of Morocco: 40,000 tonnes in the sixth lot and 40,000 tonnes in the seventh. Each lot will cost Tk 433.76 crore, at $877 a tonne.
Another 30,000 tonnes of TSP will be imported from the same company in the eighth lot at a cost of Tk 247.67 crore, or $667.67 a tonne.
In the ninth lot, 40,000 tonnes of TSP will be imported from OCP Nutricrops SA at a cost of Tk 330.23 crore, also at $667.67 a tonne.
The purchases were approved to keep adequate stocks for farmers during the growing season and to ensure fertiliser is supplied on time.
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