Reaz Ahmad

Food assistance for poor declines

This has been a bad crop year so far with back-to-back floods inflicting losses on the agrarian economy and seriously affecting livelihood in half the country.

7y ago

China-Funded Projects: Dhaka seeks to speed up deals

More than a year after the Chinese president's historic Dhaka visit, some of Bangladesh's key development projects have finally gained momentum.

7y ago

Aman yield projected to be less this year

Aman output likely to fall

Bangladesh is bracing itself for another less productive rice season as the United States Department of Agriculture predicts decline in acreage and yield of Aman. Aman is the most important rice season in the country after Boro.

7y ago

Some veggies not that safe

Consumers in Bangladesh are still unsure if the vegetables in their daily dishes are safe even though four years have gone by since the Food Safety Act was enacted.

7y ago

'Super rice' in sight

Scientists have long been considering the idea of engineering rice plant in a way that the global production of the cereal gets a dramatic boost. The idea came from the concern that the traditional research, which results in just one percent rise in the yearly yield, would not be enough to meet the ever-growing demand.

7y ago

Rich become richer, poor get poorer

The poor's share in the national income eroded further in the past six years, with the richer segment of the population having bigger stakes.

7y ago

Poverty reduction rate slows down

Bangladesh's rate of poverty reduction has slowed down in recent years.

7y ago

Rising from dire straits

Bangladesh has not had a food year so bad since 2008. That was a year now well marked in history books as the year of global economic meltdown, the worst since the Great Depression in the 1930s.

7y ago

June 6, 2016

Loss Tk 1,800cr a year, at least

The first ever attack of wheat blast in Bangladesh cost the country a financial loss of at least Tk 1,800 crore in terms of lost yield this year.

June 3, 2016

Farm output rises despite wafer-thin slice off budget

If statistics provided in the finance minister's budget speech are something to go by, the country's food grain production has increased by two million tonnes since 2012-13.

May 26, 2016

Deadly wheat blast came from Brazil

Wheat blast disease, which struck the crop fields in southwestern Bangladesh this year in its first outbreak in Asia, came from Brazil, according to two scientists in Switzerland.

May 21, 2016

Boro farmers at the mercy of middlemen

When the government had declared at the very beginning of the harvesting season that it would buy a higher volume of paddy directly

May 15, 2016

Taller, stronger rice plant

Scientists have come up with a solution for southern farmers who have long been deprived of the benefits of high-yield modern rice varieties (MVs) that cannot grow on tidal wetlands. After 12 years of arduous breeding process, they succeeded in developing two modern varieties suitable for cultivation in the tidal floodplain ecosystem of the southern delta region, with the promise of an additional yield of one million tonnes a year.

May 12, 2016