Japanese Ambassador to Nepal Tatsuo Mizuno and Finance Secretary Rameshwor Prasad Khanal signed and exchanged the notes on behalf of their respective governments.
The assistance is provided with the basic objective of enabling the government to procure rice and supply it to the food deficit districts, read a press statement issued by the Embassy of Japan on Tuesday.
Japan, being a development partner of Nepal, has been providing food aid for the last seven years.
During the grant signing occasion, the Japanese envoy expressed his wish that the extended food assistance would help Nepal address the pressing need in food deficit districts and ease the difficulties local people have been facing in their daily life.
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