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Human chain in Ctg demands urgent action to curb rice price hike

UNB Citing official data, speakers said rice prices alone contributed nearly 40% to the country’s food inflation in May 2025 despite sufficient Boro season production. Speakers at a human chain in Chattogram city expressed deep concern over the abnormal rise in rice prices on Thursday and demanded immediate government measures to control the rice market. […]

Human chain in Ctg demands urgent action to curb rice price hike

UNB Citing official data, speakers said rice prices alone contributed nearly 40% to the country’s food inflation in May 2025 despite sufficient Boro season production. Speakers at a human chain in Chattogram city expressed deep concern over the abnormal rise in rice prices on Thursday and demanded immediate government measures to control the rice market. […]

Govt imports record 12.96 lakh tonnes of food grains in FY25 amid domestic shortfall

8.30 lakh tonnes of rice, 4.66 lakh tonnes of wheat imported last fiscal. Shaikh Abdullah The government imported a record 12.96 lakh tonnes of food grains in the just concluded 2024–25 fiscal year to stabilise domestic supply amid repeated natural disasters and lower rice production. According to the food ministry’s website, the imports included 8.30 […]

High rice prices persist; Chicken, veggies see fresh hike

Market vendors attribute the increase to supply disruptions caused by continuous rainfall. Highlights: Rice prices have remained stable at increased rates in Dhaka’s markets following Eid, with a noticeable rise also seen in the prices of vegetables and chicken. Following last week’s wholesale hike of Tk4–8 per kg in rice, the higher prices have now […]

Rangpur region to produce 20-lakh tonnes of clean Aman rice

RANGPUR, June 26, 2025 (BSS) – The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has fixed a target of producing 20,10,505 tonnes of clean Aman rice (30,15,757 tonnes in terms of paddy) from 6,20,430 hectares of land for Rangpur agriculture region. “Farmers are preparing their seedbeds for Aman rice to start planting seedlings in their croplands from […]

How Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and India are transforming rice farming

Agronomy Rice feeds more than half the world’s population and sustains the livelihoods of 144 million people globally—80 percent of them smallholder farmers. With demand expected to rise by 30 percent by 2050, rice is set to become a staple crop in times to come, says World Bank. Today, the rice sector faces urgent challenges: […]

Food grain import costs set to outpace volume growth this fiscal

Yasir Wardad Rice imports mark a significant rise while wheat imports fall. The country’s food grain import cost is set to be considerably higher than the growth of its import volume in the outgoing this fiscal, available data revealed. According to the Ministry of Food, imports of food grain both by private traders and the […]