Production at CUFL suspended

Production at Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Company Limited was suspended for an indefinite period on Thursday evening due to non supply of gas. The country’s biggest fertiliser factory suspended production at 7.45 PM on March 17, CUFL sources said. They said that due to acute gas crisis, the government decided to suspend gas supply to CUFL and divert it to Power Development Board’s gas fired power plants. The objective, they said, was to improve power supply in summer. Suspension...

Non-boiled rice OMS pushes up parboiled coarse rice price

The price of parboiled course rice, consumed largely by low-income people, has increased unusually before the boro harvest as the government sold non-boiled rice through its open market sales network in the past week, market people said. Rice prices showed a declining trend in two or three weeks as boro harvest was nearing but in the past week, rice prices marked a fresh uptrend. ‘As non-boiled rice was sold in the week in some southern districts from OMS outlets, the...

Bangladesh OMS (Open market sale) photos

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