THIS is heartening that the agro-processed food industry has expanded domestically faster than what it has done in export to global market. The overall processed food market, which now employs about 250,000 people, is reported to have grown to $8 billion in Bangladesh, at an annual growth rate of 8 per cent, accounting for about 1.7 per cent of the gross domestic...
Despite a sharp decline in the commodity prices on the international market after a Ukraine war-induced surge, consumers in Bangladesh are still bearing the brunt of high prices of commodities as the domestic market remains indifferent to the global price fall...
Bangladesh has the potential to tap the global market of engineering products worth $7 trillion, where the current share of Bangladesh is less than 1 per cent, said the industry insiders...
