The food procurement office, for the first time since 1996, has bought the highest amount of aman paddy and achieved its target of buying six lakh tonnes of the grain grown in the monsoon. It bought 6.27 lakh tonnes of aman paddy since November following harvests. In the past 24 years, the public food office […]
Paddy of despair, farmers getting poor deal
The government’s market interventions have been largely ineffective. Bangladesh’s resilient farmers recouped the 2017 devastating flood-induced crop damages by growing more rice over the last few growing seasons including the current Boro. This high rice output brings much relief to the government that spent millions of Taka importing a record four million tons of rice […]
High Cost, Market Risk, Poor Distribution Among Hurdles
In Bangladesh, what are the challenges of diversifying crops in a rice-centric economy?