date:Feb 18, 2014
Singapore's Export Trading Commodities has secured a tender to supply 1,500 tonnes of chickpeas to Trading Corporation of Bangladesh after submitting the lowest offer of $557.80 a tonne, a state agency official said on Monday. The tender closed on February 10 and the source of the chickpeas would be Tanzania, the official said.
The state buyer has moved to import essential items in an effort to secure supplies for the Muslim fasting month Ramadan starts late June, when higher demand for those