Bangladesh, the fourth biggest rice-producing country in the world, produces around 39 million tons of rice annually to feed its 170 million people, with 130 lab-developed high-yielding varieties. For ...

Over the decades, Bangladesh has lost vast swathes of its waterbodies as its population has kept growing. Fishermen saw their catches shrink year after year. Still, many in rural areas refused to let ...

Efforts to reduce malnutrition have resulted in 200 million fewer hungry people worldwide since 1990. But 805 million people still deal with chronic hunger every day. In the fight against poverty and ...

Rice alone accounted for nearly half of total food inflation, according to the Economic Update and Outlook report by the Planning Commission’s General Economics Division.

In FY25, India exported 0.8 MT of rice to Bangladesh, which was 5.5% of the country's total non-basmati rice exports of 14.13 MT. (PTI) Bangladesh’s decision to float a tender for import of about 0.9 ...

Ahsan Khan Chowdhury, Chairman and CEO of PRAN-RFL Group, has warned that without radical transformation in the country’s ...

Following India's lift on the rice export ban to Bangladesh on August 12, and Dhaka's subsequent duty-free import announcement, rice prices in Bengal and other Indian regions have surged. The ...

Rice prices in Bengal spike after export ban lifted. Rice prices in Kolkata and across Bengal have gone up sharply since India lifted the ban on rice export to Bangladesh on Aug 12 and Dhaka announced ...

Researchers have found microplastics in 90% of frogs sampled from the Bengal Delta in Bangladesh. The finding raises concerns about the freshwater ecosystem health and rice cultivation, given that ...

Thailand's drought could extend into June- authorities Vietnam rice rates dip to $355/oz India prices steady, demand from African countries weak BENGALURU, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Rice export prices in ...