KATHMANDU, Aug 21: In addition to the 40 percent export tax, customs offices in Nepal levy 1.5 percent Agricultural Infrastructure Tax (AIT) and 9 percent Agricultural Reform Tax and Value Added Tax (VAT) of 13 percent. These additional taxes contribute to a total increase of around Rs 24 per kilogram for onions.
Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Development Beduram Bhusal spoke of the need to ‘recharge’ the Chure region for overall development of agriculture in the Tarai zone.
Despite being a signatory state to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the constitutional guarantee of the right to equality and non-discrimination, various discriminatory legal provisions against Madhesi, sexual and minority communities, and orphans have deprived these groups of their citizenship rights.
LAHAN, Aug 15: Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development Dr Beduram Bhusal has stressed the need to 'recharge' the Chure region for overall development of agriculture in the Terai zone.
UNICEF is working with Eli Lilly and Company and the Kathmandu Institute of Child Health to alleviate the high burden of noncommunicable diseases in Nepal.