DHAKA, April 17: Bangladesh started its rice harvest on Thursday with hopes of a bumper crop, but a farmland crunch in China and the Philippines underlines trouble ahead in dealing with the global ...

Rice imports between January and July increased 31 percent on the back of a local deficit and a growing consumption in the country. Data from the Ministry of Agriculture indicates that the volumes ...

DHAKA: Floods in Bangladesh have destroyed an estimated 1.1 million metric tons of rice, according to data from the agriculture ministry, prompting the country to ramp up imports of the staple grain ...

Rice imports more than doubled in the first half of the year amidst duty waivers as the country battled drought-induced scarcity, official data shows, surpassing the volumes shipped in during the 12 ...

KARACHI: The Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) has received 11 bids for the supply of 50,000 metric tons of long grain white rice to Bangladesh. The procurement is part of an ongoing effort to ...