Bangladesh's agriculture adviser told BIMSTEC ministers that joint work can secure food and nutrition, and offered to lead on a food reserve and research centre.
The government will buy 3.5 lakh tonnes of paddy and 14 lakh tonnes of parboiled rice this Boro season, at prices Tk 4 a kg higher than last year.
At Nazirartek near Cox's Bazar, the country's largest dried-fish village, thousands of fishing families work from dawn to turn the sea's catch into shutki, with daily trade worth crores of taka.
The Bangladesh Fisheries Development Corporation will sell hilsa weighing 450 to 850 grams at Tk 600 a kg.
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With market prices above the government rate, farmers in Sirajganj are not selling paddy to government warehouses, leaving the procurement target in doubt.
The food ministry has put one official in charge of monitoring paddy and rice procurement in each of the country's eight divisions this Aman season.
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