There was corruption in the distribution of family cards for subsidised commodity sales by the state-owned Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB), according to Commerce Adviser Sk Bashir Uddin..The TCB provides 1 crore families with subsidised food items. Of the beneficiaries, some 57 lak

The government yesterday raised the retail prices of soybean and super palm oils by Tk 8 per litre. Bottled soybean oil price was set at Tk 175, and loose soybean oil and super palm oil at Tk 157.

Egg, sugar prices became cheaper to some extent, not other commodities, he says

Real prices of rice have fallen in the decade from 2010 to 2020, benefiting consumers but generating lower real incomes for producers, according to a paper presented at an event in Dhaka yesterday..However, real prices of the staple food climbed in the years following the turn of the decad

The Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission (BTTC) has recommended that the government reduce import taxes on sunflower oil and canola or rapeseed oil to offer a greater range of cooking oils in the markets..At present, crude sunflower oil importers are required to pay a total of 31 percent

The interim government will import another 50,000 tonnes of rice from India to increase the country’s food stocks..Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed approved a proposal in this regard at a meeting of a government advisory committee on purchase at Bangladesh Secretariat yesterday..The

The interim government of Bangladesh has allowed 277 private entities to import 14.81 lakh tonnes of rice as it looks to contain domestic prices of the staple grain by increasing stocks..Of the total, 10.65 lakh tonnes will be boiled rice while the rest will be sunned rice, according to do

Salehuddin Ahmed attends Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation’s 34th founding anniversary

The benefit will remain valid until March 31 next year

Sk Bashir Uddin says he will work hard together with everyone to control commodity prices

The tariff withdrawal will remain effective until Jan 15 next year

Banks suggested keeping minimum margins on the import value of Ramadan items

Consumers in Bangladesh have been paying more for potatoes over the past week, with supplies of the tuber harvested in the previous season running low as the new season approaches..Additionally, the high profiteering tendency among a section of people in the supply chain is dealing a furth

Indian agriculture ministry estimates producing 119.93 million tonnes of rice

In the face of rising prices of onions, the Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission (BTTC) has recommended that the government allow zero-duty entry of the kitchen staple to cut import costs and stabilise domestic prices. .Prices of the bulb surged to as high as Tk 150 per kilogramme earlie

The Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission (BTTC) has requested the government to temporarily withdraw import duty on rice to increase the supply and, in turn, contain the price of this staple food in the local markets.

Consumers in Bangladesh saw no drop in soybean and palm oil prices over the past week even though the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has reduced an import VAT from 15 percent to 10 percent.

Onion prices at retail markets in Dhaka rose by Tk 10 to Tk 15 per kg over the past week, deepening the woes of low and fixed-income people

Each fisherman will get 25 kgs of rice under the VGF scheme during the ban beginning on October 13

The Modi-administration withdraws the minimum export price of $490 per tonne on overseas shipments of non-basmati white rice