Bangladesh, the fourth biggest rice-producing country in the world, produces around 39 million tons of rice annually to feed its 170 million people, with 130 lab-developed high-yielding varieties. For ...

Over the decades, Bangladesh has lost vast swathes of its waterbodies as its population has kept growing. Fishermen saw their catches shrink year after year. Still, many in rural areas refused to let ...

Efforts to reduce malnutrition have resulted in 200 million fewer hungry people worldwide since 1990. But 805 million people still deal with chronic hunger every day. In the fight against poverty and ...

Niger state Commissioner for Investment, Commerce and Industry, Alhaji Mudi Mohammed has disclosed that the state is going into partnership with Bangladesh on rice farming and production. Speaking ...

In FY25, India exported 0.8 MT of rice to Bangladesh, which was 5.5% of the country's total non-basmati rice exports of 14.13 MT. (PTI) Bangladesh’s decision to float a tender for import of about 0.9 ...

Researchers have found microplastics in 90% of frogs sampled from the Bengal Delta in Bangladesh. The finding raises concerns about the freshwater ecosystem health and rice cultivation, given that ...