Food Minister Sadhan Chandar Majumder today said the government is planning to provide over one crore families with 10 kilogrammes rice under Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme in the upcoming Ramadan.
Crop protection chemical sellers in Bangladesh are facing difficulty in opening letters of credit amid banks' lack of interest owing to the crunch of the US dollar.
16 Northern Districts: Saiful Islam has lately been busy preparing his five bighas of land to grow paddy. But he reckons he will have to spend Tk 25,000 more than he did last season for the cultivation as the cost of just about everything has gone up.