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  Deplorable deception in marketing fine variety of rice

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 12, 2021

  THE findings of the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute that the many rice varieties sold as miniket and najirshail are in effect over-polished versions of coarse...

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  No miniket rice exists in Bangladesh, finds govt study

  Emran Hossain | Updated at 12:36am on April 11, 2021

  All varieties of miniket rice and most of the najirshail variety found on the market are actually over-polished coarse varieties of rice, found a recent...

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  July-Feb rice import payments up 25 times

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:09pm on April 09, 2021

  Year-on-year import of rice has increased almost 25 times in the first eight months of the current fiscal year 2020-2021 amid low government stock of...

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  Cabinet body okays direct purchase of 1 lakh tonne rice from India

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:19am on April 08, 2021

  The cabinet committee on economic affairs on Wednesday approved in principle a Directorate General of Food proposal to import 1 lakh tonnes of rice from...

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  48 sacks of OMS rice recovered

  Our Correspondent . Tangail | Updated at 03:01pm on March 25, 2021

  Kalihati upazila administration recovered 48 sacks of government rice from two auto-rickshaws at Awlatoil village under Nagbari union of Kalihati upazila in Tangail on Thursday...

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  Millers to lose security deposits if agreed amount not supplied

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:33pm on March 22, 2021

  The government has decided that security money submitted by rice mill owners will be forfeited for failing to supply the agreed quantity of aman rice...

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  Govt to import 2.5 lakh tonnes of rice without tender

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:56am on March 11, 2021

  The government on Wednesday decided to import 2.5 lakh tonnes of rice from India, Vietnam and Thailand without any tender to meet an emergency need...

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  Govt for urgent import amid rice stock shortage

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:37pm on March 03, 2021

  The government on Wednesday decided to lower the tender submission period to 10 days from 42 days for an emergency import of 5.5 lakh tonnes...

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  Monirampur upazila vice-chairman lands in jail over misappropriation of rice

  Our Correspondent . Jashore | Updated at 01:50am on February 08, 2021

  A Jashore court on Sunday sent Monirampur upazila council vice-chairman Uttam Chakrawarty Bachchu to jail on charge of misappropriating about 549 sacks of rice that...

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  Bangladesh bins rice import proposal from Myanmar

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 08:19pm on February 03, 2021

  Bangladesh has turned down a proposal to import 100,000 metric tons of rice from Myanmar due to the current situation in the neighbouring nation. The...