WHILE food inflation has put a large number of poor, low- and fixed-income people into difficulty, the persistent increase in rice prices appears to be pushing many into food insecurity. The increase in rice prices, moreover, remains the major contributor to food inflation. Fine rice inflation has stayed in double digits over the past twelve months, while the medium and coarse...
Rice prices continue to be the major contributor to food inflation as well as overall price hikes of essentials that lead majority people to struggle for food security amid spreading hidden hunger...
Despite a record Boro harvest, rice prices in Bangladesh remain unusually high, raising questions about market manipulation amid weak monitoring as well as regulation...
Bangladesh interim government commerce adviser SK Bashir Uddin on Tuesday hoped that rice prices would become more affordable within the next two weeks.
Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Tuesday said that not all but the price a specific variety of rice increased on the local market and blamed that supply chain management problems were behind the price hike...
The government has allowed the private sector to import 3.92 lakh tonnes of rice within this month, aiming to keep rice price stable on the retail market across the country, according to the food ministry...
Food adviser Ali Imam Majumdar has said that rice prices might decline gradually with the new Aman rice coming to the market...