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 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
May 6, 2017
Disbursement rate highest in Bangladesh
Bangladesh topped the list of all the developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank in terms of loan disbursement ratio last year, followed by China, Pakistan, India and Vietnam.
May 5, 2017
ADB to help Bangladesh produce renewable energy
The Asian Development Bank is ready to partner with Bangladesh in generating clean and renewable energies, including solar,
May 4, 2017
Focus on export markets left behind by China
Bangladesh should seize the opportunities that China is creating by slowly retreating from the export markets, said Yasuyuki Sawada, chief economist of the Asian Development Bank, yesterday.
May 4, 2017
ADB focuses on water worries
Keeping the looming water scarcity in mind, the Asian Development Bank has nearly doubled its allocation for water sector projects across Asia to $4.2 billion this year, up from an average yearly funding of $2.4 billion in the last six years.
May 3, 2017
Fruit farmers don't get fair prices
A third of hog plums and a sixth of guavas that the country produces each year are grown in three southwestern
April 26, 2017
Big blow to Boro
For the first time in recent years, Bangladesh is set to experience a less productive rice season owing to a huge loss of Boro crops. Back-to-back disasters -- flashfloods, intense rainfall and fungal disease blast attacks -- have come as a blow to Boro, the biggest of the country's three rice seasons. The other two seasons are Aus and Aman.
April 23, 2017
Havoc in Haors: Fish dying further down
A government dispatched experts' team reached Sunamganj yesterday to collect water samples from the haors there for lab test at the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission to ascertain whether there is any radioactive materials in the waters.
April 21, 2017
Uranium behind deaths in haors?
Bangladesh experiences flash floods ever so often and farmers are no stranger to crop loss as a result. But the deaths of fish, frogs and fowls in their hundreds as an aftermath of such floods are a new phenomenon altogether.
April 20, 2017
Hakaluki Haor: Not only fish, ducks too dying
Farmers living in and around Hakaluki Haor have been dealt a triple blow with the death of hundreds of ducks they have been farming for their livelihood for years.
April 18, 2017
Growers now buyers
Queues get longer under the scorching sun at midday at the backswamp of Sunamganj for subsidised rice and wheat flour. People start lining up at 10:00am at points of open market sale (OMS) across the district to buy rice and flour at Tk 15 and 17 a kg, a lot cheaper than the market prices.
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