Daily lifeSince May, before Eid ul-Adha, TCB has stopped selling subsidised edible oil, sugar and lentils from trucks, cutting off low-income people who have no family card.
Daily lifeBangladesh's state trading agency TCB plans to trim this year's subsidy by Tk 500 to 600 crore through lower interest and running costs and more commercial sales, and to become self-reliant in four to five years, while keeping subsidised prices unchanged.
VegetablesBeef has risen to Tk 850 a kilo in Dhaka's markets and four eggs cost Tk 50, while the first winter vegetables have brought down the price of aubergine, cauliflower and pointed gourd. Edible oil is short.
AgribusinessCiting higher booking prices on the world market and freight costs, traders have proposed raising edible oil prices by Tk 14 a litre, while date importers want duties cut. The ministry has not decided.
Daily lifeRetail onion cost Rs 52.70 a kg on 16 October, 96% more than a year earlier, while tur dal reached Rs 131.06 and soybean oil Rs 168; potato is cheaper.
CropsUkraine's biggest grain exporter shipped 574,000 tons in the July to September quarter, its edible oil sales fell 48% and it now expects a corn yield of 8.1 tons per hectare, down 13%.
HealthThe Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection fined three shops in Shah Ali and Kalyanpur a total of Tk 150,000 for keeping loose soybean and palm oil in unhygienic, unlabelled drums.
AgribusinessUnder trade regulation No. 16/2026, only state export enterprises with a permit may ship crude and refined palm oil from 1 January; private firms must join the cooking-oil obligation or hand over rights.
AgribusinessThe Bareilly food company's first overseas move, phased over ten years, puts sunflower oil first and adds dairy, contract farming and processing, with about one lakh local jobs expected.
Daily lifeThe Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection fined 80 businesses in 28 districts a total of Tk 10,39,500, destroying chemically ripened bananas and about 204 litres of soybean oil kept in drums once used for urea-formaldehyde.
Market ManagementIndia's retail inflation rose to 5.5% in September from 4.8% in August and food inflation to 7.7% from 6.0%, with onion prices up 108.1% after a smaller rabi crop, Crisil Intelligence says.
Daily lifeCrisil Intelligence says a home-cooked vegetarian thali cost 10% more in September than a year earlier and a non-vegetarian thali 6% more, driven by onions, rice, edible oil and cooking gas, with onion prices likely to stay high into mid-October.
AgribusinessThe Solvent Extractors' Association of India will send a delegation to Colombia early next year and expects to sign an MoU with the growers' federation Fedepalma, as Indonesia and Malaysia divert more palm oil to biodiesel.
