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, officials said.

The government will begin distributing food through Open Market Sale (OMS) and Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) programmes by mid-July, Food Adviser Ali Imam Majumder announced today (5 July).

In southern Bangladesh, bright green rice paddies stretch into the distance. But in the village of Gholgholia, rice in one paddy grows unevenly. The leaves are dry and brown.

BRRI director general said, farmers are frequently facing acute loss in paddy production due to impact of adverse impact of ...

According to trade sources, Raipur-based rice exporter has bagged the tender to supply 50,000 tonnes of rice to Bangladesh at $ 393.30 per tonnes.

Bangladesh, the fourth biggest rice-producing country in the world, produces around 39 million tons of rice annually to feed its 170 million people, with 130 lab-developed high-yielding varieties.

Govt Measures to Drive Paddy Prices Up: Nothing’s working. The government had announced a 20 percent incentive on rice export and a Tk 3,000 crore subsidy for farmers to buy agro tools.

Despite a recent marginal dip in the national inflation rate, persistently high prices continue to inflict significant hardship on lower and middle-income households across Bangladesh, severely ...

Altaf Hossain, a farmer in the same area, said that the yield of this paddy is similar to that of hybrid rice, but the cost of cultivation is lower. This rice will quickly become popular, he hoped.

He managed to make about 215,000 taka ($2,000), up from the 80,000-odd taka he used to receive for his rice harvest. Accelerating climate change impacts have led many farmers in Bangladesh’s Rajshahi ...

Bangladesh, the fourth-highest rice-producing country in the world, produces around 39 million tons of rice and around 1.1 million tons of wheat annually to feed its 170 million people, according ...

The Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission (BTTC) has requested the government to temporarily withdraw import duty on rice to increase the supply and, in turn, contain the price of this staple ...