Price of wheat has gone down by Tk 4-5 per kg as supply issues eased after India resumed exports through Hili land port in Dinajpur.

Farming means everything to Habibul Bahar Sujan. The successful young man wanted to be a farmer since his childhood. But success does not always come easily. People have to be skilled to be successful.

The Food Ministry has given approval to 380 private organisations to import 10 lakh tons of rice.

The bottled soybean oil price has been reduced by Tk 14 a litre at retail.

India yesterday (July 15, 2022) urged the World Trade Organization (WTO) to allow it to export food grains from its public stockholding to countries facing food crisis.

The wholesale and retail prices of vegetables and fish have shot up in Khulna right after Eid celebrations, due to inadequate supply -- creating a burden for those belonging to the lower-income group.

During summer, mangoes take over every household in Bangladesh. Sometimes in the form of snacks, sometimes in the form of substitute for a meal, and sometimes just because…why not? But ever wonder how the mangoes come to your table from the field? We are about to take a look into that journey that a mango has to go through to reach your table.

Most of the flood victims in Ulipur upazila of Kurigram are yet to receive their share of the flood rations even though 863 metric tonnes of of Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) rice was allotted for 86,315 poor families on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha.

World hunger levels rose again last year after soaring in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with the Ukraine war and climate change threatening starvation and mass migration on an "unprecedented scale" this year, according to UN agencies.

Amid rising prices of food essentials and other basic necessities, the recent hike in prices of toiletries and other homecare products has added a new burden for people. 

There is a new problem in Bangladesh’s edible oil market but as always, the consumers end up being the sufferers.

Despite a bumper yield of potatoes, consumers are not being able to reap the benefits due to a five-year record hike in the retail prices of the vegetable.

Ninety-five food companies have got the permission to import a total of 4,09,000 tonnes of rice as the government tries to lower the prices of staple grain by increasing supply.

Edible oil refiners have cut soybean oil prices up to Tk 6 a litre though the consumers rights organisation said the rates should have been reduced by at least Tk 30 amid falling prices of the item in the global market.

Every minute, the global hunger crisis is pushing one child into life-threatening, severe malnutrition, according to the UN children's fund, Unicef.

In an observational study, moderate consumption of unsweetened or sugar-sweetened coffee was associated with lower mortality.

Chattogram residents who buy essentials from Trading Corporation Bangladesh (TCB) had to suffer yesterday, as Chattogram District Administration postponed TCB operations, reportedly without notice.

Bangladesh has cut customs tariffs and duty on rice until October 31 this year in order to encourage imports to increase supply of the staple grain in the domestic market and cool its prices, according to a notification today (June 23, 2022).

Russia has already given offer to export two lakh metric tons of wheat to Bangladesh, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder told the parliament today (June 23, 2022).

India has exported 1.5 lakh tonnes of wheat to Bangladesh since the country restricted the export of the grain on May 13, according to the Indian Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey.