By Akhter Ahmed, Country Representative, IFPRI-Bangladesh The latest findings from the 2022 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES), published by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) in December 2023, reveal remarkable reductions in poverty. The official headcount rate for moderate poverty (the proportion of people living below the upper poverty line) decreased by 23.0 per […]
Rice harvest declines, despite output growth
Although rice production in Bangladesh has tripled in more than four and half decades, both agriculture and rice production growth rates have slowed down. Rice production and consumption remains the main driver of agricultural growth, and rice harvest trends in gross domestic production (GDP), said a panel of agro-scientists on Wednesday. Agriculture growth tops the […]
Agri growth stalls as rice production falls: study
The overall agricultural growth has been slowed down by a fall in the growth of rice production, revealed a new research released by International Food Policy Research Institute on Wednesday. Between 2012 and 2016, the overall agricultural sector recorded an average growth of 2.4 per cent with rice production growing at a rate of 0.7 […]
No rice crisis in country now: Minister
Food Minister Qamrul Islam said on Wednesday the government has imported enough rice to tackle any supply shortage of the staple food, and now there is no rice crisis in the country. "Rice crisis was created for a short period this year due to early flood. But the government has promptly imported adequate rice to […]
Modern seed technology key to agricultural growth: speakers
Popularizing stress tolerant seed verities among the farmers was crucial to make the national agricultural growth sustainable, observed policymakers and researchers on Wednesday. They highlighted the need for adopting new technologies of seed development in accordance with the constraints and requirements of farmers. Addressing a workshop on formulating policy for developing seed sector in Bangladesh, […]