AreaBangladesh

Commodity GroupRice

CommodityAll

Date12/11/2015

Policy CategoryProduction

Policy InstrumentGovernment procurement, purchasing prices

DescriptionAnnounced that it would purchase 200 000 tonnes of rice from the 2015 Aman harvest, between 15 December 2015 and 15 March 2016. Procurement prices under the programme were set at BDT 31 per kilo (USD 390 per tonne), down 3 percent from prices offered for Aman rice in 2014.

NotesExchange rate as of 1 December 2015.