The Ministry of Agriculture said that they had recommended retaining last year’s minimum support price.

People thought it wiser to stock up on refrigerated products and avoid crowded marketplaces, merchants said.

The northern border has reopened, but only a small number of containers are being allowed to pass.

According to the Trade and Export Promotion Centre, Nepal imported Rs737 million worth of gold between mid-July and mid-October.

E-payment accounted for about 40 percent of the online sales during the recent festival shopping spree, sellers said.

Some models of two-wheelers went out of stock due to explosive demand, dealers say.

Tea exports see a steep jump of 150 percent to Rs2.18 billion. Shipments in the first quarter of the last fiscal year amounted to Rs871 million.

Prices expected to stabilise as seasonal vegetables arrive in larger volumes

Under this plan, high-quality sugarcane will be priced at Rs546 per quintal, medium quality at Rs536 and low-quality at Rs526.

Despite the pandemic and lowered incomes, business was better than expected, traders said.

Imports were valued at Rs180 million this Tihar compared to Rs400 million previously.

Consumer protection body takes action against representatives of Ayan Distributor and Bishnu Laxmi Enterprises for peddling expired products by relabelling their dates.

Wholesale traders said there were few chances of prices going up from current levels.

The proliferation of market offences is due to the government's weak inspection system, activists say.

E-retailers estimate that sales may have crossed the Rs1 billion mark during the two-week shopping spree.