AreaBangladesh

Commodity GroupRice

CommodityAll

Date30/11/2017

Policy CategoryProduction

Policy InstrumentGovernment procurement, purchasing prices

DescriptionAnnounced that it would buy 300 000 tonnes of Aman rice, between December 2017 and February 2018. Volumes would be purchased at BDT 39 per kg (USD 464 per tonne), up from the BDT 33 per kg (USD 392 per tonne) offered a year earlier.

NotesExchange rate as of 1 December 2017.