Despite concerns raised by the officials from the education and agriculture ministries on the transfer of increased stipend for school feeding, Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering announced that stipend would be transferred to agriculture ministry.

This was announced in the State of the Nation report recently where the prime minister said that this would in turn ensure supply of locally grown food to schools while also facilitating farming communities with a ready market.

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