BEARING IT ALL FOR RICE AT LOW PRICE

Forced to bring along her yet-to-be-weaned child, a mother makes her way out of a crowded queue on securing rice at a low rate of Tk 30 per kilogramme from an Open Market Sale initiative of the Directorate General of Food in the capital’s Moghbazar yesterday morning. Floods have repeatedly been hitting farmers since the end of June this year, fuelling prices of the staple grain. In September, retail price of coarse rice was up 31 per cent year-on-year to Tk 44 a kg in Dhaka, the Food and Agriculture Organization data showed. Photo: Anisur Rahman