The committee set a procurement target of 4 lakh tonnes of paddy and 12.5 lakh tonnes of parboiled rice for the upcoming Boro season during a meeting at the Secretariat

But consumption of non-cereal, protein, vegetables continue rising

The Cabinet today cleared the draft of "Production, Storage, Transfer, Transportation, Supply, Distribution and Marketing of Food Products (Prevention of Prejudicial Activity) Act, 2023" keeping the provision of maximum lifetime imprisonment in the proposed law

The United Nations food agency's world price index fell in March for a 12th consecutive month, and is now down 20.5% from a record high hit one year ago following Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun says

MA Khair Chowdhury passed the Segunbagicha kitchen market disappointed.

The price of broiler chicken has started falling at the retail level in Bangladesh as four major poultry companies are now selling the meat for a maximum of Tk 195 per kg directly from their farms

There are at least three laws and as many government bodies to protect the consumers from price manipulation, but it goes on unabated due to lax enforcement of the laws and a lack of coordination among the government organisations, say commodity experts.

Taking Tk 300 from her rickshaw-puller husband, Moni Begum went to Mirpur-11 kitchen market in the capital yesterday in the hope of buying some good food for her three children to eat on the first day of Ramadan.

5,000-7,000 chickens die on the way to the capital and end up in eateries, claims the state minister for industries

Police and RAB will cooperate in the mobile court drives

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam today said they would monitor the kitchen markets strictly to keep supply of daily essentials and its prices in a stable state during the month of Ramadan.

With Ramadan less than a week away, the high prices of chicken and meat are not likely to come down anytime soon.

Poultry operators say at an international poultry seminar in Dhaka

The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) has said that there is no evidence of Sultan's Dine restaurant using the meat of other animals instead of mutton in their Kachchi biryani

The tea workers demanded Tk 30,000 in arrears for 20 months in line with the hiked wages that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked tea garden owners to pay in August last year

Shojne or moringa drumsticks are a seasonal treat and is found in bazars during early spring. All local markets and vegetable vans, roaming the lanes and by lanes of any residential area, are vending these light green drumsticks, a rare delicacy fancied by many, because of its phytomedicinal values.

The country has achieved bumper Aman yield and it would not need to import rice if good yield of Boro paddy is achieved, said the minister

An author of the new study said researchers were not on a "crusade" against infant formula, which should remain an option for mothers who cannot or choose not to breastfeed

“Because of the cutting and polishing, rice loses its nutritional value and it is being done by importing machines spending crores of taka. The government will take steps soon to stop it.”