9500 tonnes of rice consignment from India reached Chittagong Port

28-Mar-2025 05:21 PM

Dhaka. Rice is being regularly sent from India to Bangladesh. As a part of this series, a ship loaded with 9500 tonnes of rice from India reached Chittagong Port of Bangladesh last day.

A press release issued by the Food Ministry of Bangladesh said that under an agreement made under an international open tender, this rice reached the port from India on March 26 through a ship named MV Yang Shen 151.

Under this agreement, Bangladesh has agreed to import a total of 4.50 lakh tonnes of rice in nine consignments, out of which 2,97,269 tonnes of rice has already reached Bangladesh.

A sample of rice was taken from the stock of this latest shipment and it was tested and soon the process of unloading this rice from the ship will start.

Generally, the rice import tender issued by the Bangladesh government has a condition that the offer price of rice should include the cost of safe transportation of the goods to Bangladesh ports and unloading of the goods from the ships.

Last year, due to natural disasters in Bangladesh, paddy crop equivalent to more than 12 lakh tonnes of rice was destroyed, due to which the supply and availability of rice in the domestic sector is getting affected and the price is running high.

The government is regularly importing rice to ensure domestic food security and to curb the rise in prices.

Apart from India, an agreement has been signed to import one lakh tonnes of rice from Vietnam and its shipment has started. Indian rice is relatively cheaper.

A plan was also made to import rice from Pakistan. The Bangladesh government had also allowed private firms to import rice at concessional customs duty.