The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase approved the proposal to buy the rice from overseas in a meeting on Wednesday. The rest of the rice, 150,000 tonnes, will come from the National Agriculture Cooperative Marketing Federation of India under a government-to-government process at Tk 5.22 billion. These consignments will include 100,000 tonnes of parboiled rice and 50,000 tonnes of Atap rice. The committee had earlier approved the import of 150,000 tonnes of rice from India in three phases. According to the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh, the prices of the staple grain have increased by at least 10 percent in amonth.

Source: bd News24 January 06, 2021 17:37 UTC