Budget needs to focus on agricultural production to check increasing dependency on food imports
KATHMANDU, May 21 -- With several negative impacts on the economic activities amid the growing threat of COVID-19 across the country, the government is expected to come up with effective programs to boost the agricultural sector via the announcement of the budget for fiscal year 2020/21 that is scheduled for May 28.
As the threat of the pandemic is deepening globally, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers are expected to return to Nepal. Similarly, there is an uncertainty as to how long it will take to revive the economic activities including the tourism business that have remained completely shut. All these are likely to result in a large scale of unemployment in the country. In this context, the government is expected to launch game...
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