Cooking Oil Prices Surge Amid Global Supply Chain Disruptions, Government Steps Up Monitoring

Kathmandu. The price of cooking oil has risen unusually high over the past month. Traders have increased the price by NPR 20 to NPR 50 per liter, citing rising raw material costs in the international market due to the ongoing conflict in West Asia.

Sunflower oil, which was available for NPR 250 to NPR 275 per liter in the last week of Magh, has now crossed NPR 290 per liter by mid-Falgun.