Rice prices have seen an abnormal increase recently in Bangladesh, despite higher yields and an adequate supply. Even a sharp ...

New automatic rice mills will now need a no-objection certificate as the government seeks to spread them more evenly across ...

The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has set a record target of producing 23,08,712 tons of clean Boro rice ...

The government has set a record in procuring paddy and rice during the Boro procurement programme-2025. According to the Ministry of Food, the government earlier set a target to procure 350,000 metric ...

Two decades ago, most seeds in Bangladesh came from farmers’ own reserves or the state-run Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC). Today, that picture has changed dramatically ...

KISHOREGANJ DISTRICT, Bangladesh, May 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Standing in his paddy field in northeast Bangladesh, Shafiqul Islam Talukder holds a handful of empty stalks - all chaff, with ...

In FY25, India exported 0.8 MT of rice to Bangladesh, which was 5.5% of the country's total non-basmati rice exports of 14.13 MT. (PTI) Bangladesh’s decision to float a tender for import of about 0.9 ...

Vietnam traders speeding purchases to fulfil export contracts Bangladesh imported 634,000 T in first 11 months this year Drought concerns, supply to Indonesia helping Thai rates- trader June 8 ...

DHAKA, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Bangladesh began buying 200,000 tonnes of rice and paddy from local farmers on Tuesday to boost emergency food stocks to 3 million tonnes in the fiscal year to June 2009, ...

About 15 million farmers in Bangladesh grow just five to six rice varieties, despite the availability of more than 130 different rice varieties, giving rise to an effective monoculture that leaves ...

The expansion of shrimp cultivation has changed the land-use pattern and had a negative effect on the coastal ecosystems of Bangladesh. This study aimed to examine how socioeconomic conditions have ...