Tag: rice

  • Food officer of Faridpur has been suspended for falsifying rice

    Food officer of Faridpur has been suspended for falsifying rice

    Sanwar Hussain was suspended as the inquiry committee found his involvement in embezzlement. Earlier on November 23, Dhaka Divisional Regional Food Controller MD Mahbubur Rahman, Officiating District Food Controller. Tarikuzzaman, Madaripur District Food Controller Ismail Hussain and Charabadrasan Upazila Food Controller Rezaul Alam visited the food depot and sealed it after detecting irregularities.

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  • Minister, Secretary on three-nation tour to procure rice amid dollar crisis

    Minister, Secretary on three-nation tour to procure rice amid dollar crisis

    Last September, Bangladesh signed a government-to-government (G2G) agreement to buy 230,000 tonnes of rice from Vietnam. Apart from this, 100,000 tonnes of rice is being bought from India and 200,000 tonnes from Myanmar. Usna rice is being bought from Vietnam at the rate of $521 per tonne and Atap rice at the rate of $494…

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  • Pitha fest or Pitha Utshab ends today

    Rice is the staple food of the Bangladeshis. Bangladeshis like to eat Pitha and Pitha is a culture of the Bangladeshis. Rice, coconut, date juice, milk etc are the main ingredients of Pitha. It may sound simple, but making Paitha is not always simple. Special type of rice is required to make traditional delicious pithas.…

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  • Mitigating malnutrition necessary to become middle income country by 2021

    Halving the incidence of hunger was among the millennium development goals which are to be met by 2015. Bangladesh is among the twenty countries who have already met that goal. But Bangladesh is dreaming to become a middle income country by 2021, which will be the golden anniversary of the country. This target has some…

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  • Two rice mill workers killed by boiler explosion

    Rice is the staple food of Bangladesh and people of the Indian subcontinent like boiled rice. This is why rice is boiled and then dried before marketing. Some technological improvements in recent years have made the work little easier. Still it is a laborious process and fuel consumption has been a concern. Nutritionists have been…

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  • Vitamin-A abounding rice gets nod

    The supervision has authorised import of vitamin A-enriched transgenic rice seeds for investigate as great as hearing production. The state-run Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) late final month got the capitulation for procuring seeds of the transgenic rice, popularly great good known as “Golden Rice”, for the first-ever hearing prolongation in the country. Something is…

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  • Bangladesh in between tip rice-eaters

    Bangladesh stands fourth in per-capita rice expenditure in a world, uncover interpretation rebuilt by a Food as good as Agriculture Organization (FAO). Brunei Darussalam tops a list with per-capita expenditure of 245 kilograms of rice a year, according to Faostat, a unchanging food supply interpretation rebuilt by a FAO, reports BSS. Vietnam is in second…

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  • Fuel price hike ups rice price

    Retailers in the capital city have increased prices of all but coarse varieties of rice by about Tk 2 to Tk 4 a kilogram in the current week on the excuse of an increase in transport cost after the fuel price increase effected on September 19. Wholesalers at Babubazar on Dhaka, however, said that the…

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