Staff Reporter

The Government is expecting that the first consignment of rice from India to reach Dhaka by next week as New Delhi agreed to supply the commodity at the rate of US 399 dollars per tonne, official sources said yesterday.
India had recently lifted a ban on export of rice up to 5.5 lakh tonnes to Bangladesh following the attack of Cyclone Sidr that ravaged the country’s coastlines on November 15 last year.
“We are expecting the first consignment of rice to reach here by this month after the final approval of the decision by the two Governments,” a senior official of the Food Ministry told journalists. [Read more]