The government has started importing lentils and rice-bran oil for distribution among lower-income people during the upcoming Ramadan.

Deal signed for 3 lakh tonnes

They include edible oil, gram, pules, onion, sugar and dates

The customers have to press another digit after dialling 333 to get the service from Jan 31

Tight supply and higher prices of wheat has driven flour prices to go up

The Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) has developed two new high-yielding rice varieties which are suitable for the Boro season.

The prospect of record high onion production is encouraging farmers to expand cultivation, according to the DAE

Commerce ministry writes letters to Bangladesh Bank, the National Board of Revenue

Traders made the demand for onion, edible oil, sugar, lentil, chickpeas, dates

More than 60 years ago, an adolescent Fazlur Rahman got an unexpected start to his journey in business.

Fazlur Rahman, chairman and managing director of City Group, one of the leading commodity importers and processors, is no more.  

The economy is facing certain challenges pertaining to inflation and it is of utmost importance to tame inflation at whatever costs necessary, especially food inflation

Sugar price may reduce if US dollar rates fall, he says

A total of 93 traders across the country were fined a total of Tk 414,500 by the Directorate of National Consumers Right Protection (DNCRP) yesterday for “holding back stocks of onion to artificially raise prices”.

Old and new potatoes are being sold at the same price in kitchen markets of several districts across Bangladesh, including Dhaka, according to traders.

India’s Consumer Affairs Secretary Rohit Kumar Singh says today in New Delhi

The director general of the Directorate of National Consumers Right Protection says

DNCRP fined four traders in Chattogram Tk 40,000

Earlier, it would take 10 days

India has extended the ban on the exports of onion till March next year with a view to increasing availability in domestic markets and to keep prices in check, according to a notification issued by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade yesterday.