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TCB buys 1,500 T chickpeas at $587/T

Singapore's Export Trading Commodities has secured a tender to supply 1,500 tonnes of chickpeas to Trading Corporation of Bangladesh after submitting the lowest offer of $587.80 a tonne, a state agency official said on Wednesday. ChickpeasThe tender closed on March 19 and the source of the chickpeas would be Tanzania, the official said. The price is higher than the lowest offer of 557.80 a tonne in a previous tender that was won by the same trading company. The state buyer has m...

NRBCB opens branch at Keraniganj

The 12th Branch of NRBCB (NRB Commercial Bank Limited) was inaugurated at Agnagar, Keranigonj, Dhaka.  

Mohammed Manjurul Islam Director of the Bank inaugurated the Branch on Thursday (10 April, 2014). NRBCB Aganagar

Bangladesh signs deal to establish food storage facility

The government of Bangladesh has entered into a financing agreement with the International Development Association (IDA), a unit of World Bank, to establish a food storage facility. As part of the Modern Food Storage Facilities project, the government will construct steel silos and support the distribution of smaller household silos to 500,000 households. pariza rice panicleThe steel silos, capable of storing around 535,500 tons of rice and wheat for up to three years, incorporat...

Japan supports affordable crop insurance for farmers

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Bangladesh signed a grant agreement of $2 million to develop innovative new crop insurance products that will give small-holder farmers in Bangladesh income protection from increasingly severe storms and natural disasters.

The Government of Japan is providing the grant through the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction. ADB will administer the fund, and provide technical support for implementing the Weather Index-Based Crop Insurance Project. The Government of Bangladesh is providing in-kind support of $420,000.

Bangladesh faces less Islamic terrorism than India, Pakistan

Bangladesh has much less of an Islamic terrorism problem than India and Pakistan but it also has Islamic political parties and these are becoming more of a problem. While most Bangladeshis are hostile to Islamic terrorism, a growing number back the Islamic politicians. The reason can be summed up in one word; corruption. The two largest secular political parties are notoriously corrupt and have been for decades. The secular politicians talk about eliminating corruption but never do anything about it. The Islamic politicians are seen as (and generally are, for the most part) less corrupt.

Sanitation marketing helps make toilets more available, affordable

Golam Mostafa lived with his family for many years with an unhygienic pit latrine. Mostafa, the owner of a small printing press in Jamalpur town, had previously considered upgrading his latrine, particularly for his wife and young daughter’s use.  However, he didn't see the upgrade as a necessity nor could he afford the estimated US$83 a new system would cost him and his family. But then Mostafa met Hafiz Rahman, a local sanitation entrepreneur from whom he would purchase his first improved, twin-pit offset latrine, complete with handwashing facilities. sanitaion
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