The Food Management and Trading Company Limited, Taplejung, has conducted trade worth more than Rs 10 million in just three months, recording transactions of Rs 10.2 million from Shrawan to Ashwin, the first quarter of the current fiscal year. The district office's turnover of Rs 10,200,750, achieved between mid-July and mid-October, places it remarkably close to the Rs 10.6 million it earned across the whole of the previous fiscal year 2082/83, when the office sold food grains worth that amount over twelve months.
Rs 10.2 Million Traded in the First Quarter
The company's Taplejung office carried out trade totalling one crore two lakh 750 rupees, or Rs 10,200,750, during the three-month period from Shrawan to Ashwin. The stretch covers Shrawan, Bhadra and Ashwin, the opening quarter of the Nepali fiscal year, and corresponds roughly to mid-July through mid-October. The figures were reported by Nepal Press and Pradesh Khabar.
The key figures from the reporting period can be summarised as follows:
- Period: Shrawan to Ashwin, the first three months of the fiscal year, roughly mid-July to mid-October
- Turnover: Rs 10,200,750 (one crore two lakh 750 rupees)
- Previous fiscal year (2082/83): Rs 10.6 million in food grain sales across the full year
Crossing the Rs 10 million mark within a single quarter underscores the scale of routine food grain sales handled by the district-level office. For an outlet operating in a hilly district of eastern Nepal, a three-month turnover that nearly matches a full year's earnings from the previous fiscal year represents a notable pace of business, one that reflects the steady demand for staple grains among consumers in the district.
Quarterly Turnover Nears Last Year's Annual Sales
The most striking aspect of the figures is the comparison with the previous fiscal year. In the entirety of 2082/83, the Taplejung office sold food grains worth Rs 10.6 million. The Rs 10.2 million recorded in the first quarter of the current fiscal year falls short of that annual total by only about Rs 400,000, meaning the office has already booked roughly 96 percent of last year's full-year turnover in a single quarter.
Viewed on a monthly basis, transactions during the period averaged around Rs 3.4 million. If sales were to continue at that monthly average through the remainder of the fiscal year, the office's annual turnover would surpass last year's total well before the year ends. The published figures, however, do not include any full-year targets or projections from the company, and no explanation for the sales pace has been given in the reports.
The arithmetic nonetheless gives the office a strong benchmark to measure itself against. With roughly Rs 400,000 in additional sales needed to equal the whole of last year's turnover, the Taplejung office enters the second quarter of the fiscal year already on the edge of that milestone.
Food Supply Role in a Hill District
The Food Management and Trading Company Limited is a government-owned enterprise tasked with the management and distribution of food grains across Nepal. Its district offices sell staple grains to consumers and work to keep supplies available in areas where private distribution networks are thin and transport is difficult. In hill and mountain districts such as Taplejung, which lies in Koshi Province in eastern Nepal, moving goods from the Terai is costly and seasonal disruptions are common, giving the company's network an important role in keeping staple grains on the market and in holding prices steady.
Against that backdrop, the Taplejung office's quarterly turnover offers a measure of the local demand the office serves. The Rs 10.2 million in transactions recorded between Shrawan and Ashwin reflects routine sales through the office during the quarter, and the near-match with the previous year's annual figure suggests a level of commercial activity well above what its full-year totals of the recent past would have implied.
For readers tracking the performance of public enterprises at the district level, the figures provide a rare mid-year snapshot. Most reporting on such offices tends to arrive only after the fiscal year closes, when annual sales figures are finalised. A quarterly disclosure showing more than Rs 10 million in trade, as in this case, allows an earlier read on how the year is shaping up.
The company has not stated what it expects for the remainder of the fiscal year, and no revised targets accompany the three-month figures. What the numbers do establish is a clear baseline: an office that took a full year to record Rs 10.6 million in food grain sales last fiscal year has, in the opening quarter of the current one, already traded more than Rs 10 million. Whether that pace holds through the remaining nine months will determine whether fiscal year 2083/84 proves a step change for the Taplejung office or simply a strong start.
