Dhaka Bureau: 52 thousand 500 tons of wheat reached the country from Ukraine. On Wednesday (November 9) afternoon, a ship named Magnum Fortune arrived at the outer anchorage of Chittagong port in Qutubdia with the government wheat. This was confirmed by Food Controller (Storage and Movement) Abdul Quader.
He said, today (Thursday) wheat samples will be collected from the ship. If the type and quality are as per the contract in the lab test, the redemption process will be started after completing the ancillary process.
Recently, the government tried to import wheat from India. However, as the country did not agree, an agreement was made to bring wheat from Russia and Ukraine on a GTU basis. As a part of which more than 100,000 tons of wheat has already arrived from Russia in two consignments.
