KATHMANDU: Food Management and Trading Company (FMTC) has started selling an electric induction stove of Baltra company.

The company has begun to sell infrared stoves after the demands for the stoves went up of late, said Director General of FMTC Netra Subedi.  The price of the stove has been fixed at Rs 4,000.

The company is preparing to import stoves from China once the stoves received on grant are sold out, informed Deputy Director General Shreemani Khanal.

The electric stoves donated by China to Nepal during the 2015 mega earthquake had been sold during the coronavirus-induced lockdown in Nepal.