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The announcement, of the Food Corporation of Bhutan (FCB) as the wholesale agent for all the vegetable vendors was a cause for concern among the vendors who are already worried over the Royal Monetary Authority (RMA)’s decision to stop issuing Indian Rupee from June first week. Lyonchen Jigmi Y. Thinley, …

“We can produce our own vegetables!” said Lyonchhen Jigmi Y. Thinley last week to 92 vegetable vendors who gathered in the capital from all over Bhutan. And that is not a tall-order from the nation’s premier, for he justified with conviction, stats and instances, that Bhutan can do it. Lyonchhen …

  Tanden Zangmo and Sonam Choden / Thimphu Vegetable vendors were encouraged to buy and sell local produce from within the country in order to make a difference to the farmers, consumers and themselves. This was the objective behind Agriculture Minister Lyonpo Dr Pema Gyamtsho visiting the Centennial Farmers Market …