October 17, 2017
Poverty reduction rate slows down
Bangladesh's rate of poverty reduction has slowed down in recent years.
October 16, 2017
Rising from dire straits
Bangladesh has not had a food year so bad since 2008. That was a year now well marked in history books as the year of global economic meltdown, the worst since the Great Depression in the 1930s.
October 15, 2017
October 12, 2017
New rice yields high hopes
Release of a new rice variety brings in high hopes as scientists expect it to break the long stagnation in the production growth of the staple.
October 5, 2017
Marginal farmers have least access
The country's farm sector is dominated by smallholders but the small and marginal farmers have the least access to the credit and agricultural extension services provided by the state.
October 3, 2017
Revolutionary leader Jasim Uddin dies
The stark contrast between the haves and have-nots has been there throughout human history.
September 29, 2017
32,000 MT of poor quality rice imported
The first two consignments of rice imported for replenishing the government's low food stock have been rejected over quality concern.
September 26, 2017
RICE FARMING: A green way to cut cost
Bangladeshi scientists have developed the perfect blend of decomposable waste, biochar, friendly bacteria and rock phosphate to make two most-used chemical fertilisers in the country's paddy fields largely unnecessary.
September 21, 2017
Rice price shows downward trend
Failing to import parboiled (Shiddo) rice from Myanmar due to high price, the government yesterday approved another deal to import 50,000 tonnes of rice through international tender.
September 19, 2017
Govt plans OMS for grassroots
With no let-up in the spiraling rice price, the government has planned to expand Open Market Sale of subsidised foodgrains to the upazilas across the country.