Insights and Stories on Bangladesh

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Bangladesh to buy 220,000 tons of U.S. wheat to cool tariff tension

Jul. 30, 2025 at 10:21 am CDT

Bangladesh's government has approved the purchase of about 220,000 metric tons of wheat from the United States as part of efforts to cool trade tensions and reduce steep import tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump's administration, a Dhaka official said on Wednesday.

China blocks pig, boar imports from Bangladesh due to African swine fever

Jan. 11, 2024 at 10:00 am CST

By Mei Mei Chu Reuters

China accounting for bulk of Canadian canola exports so far

Dec. 7, 2023 at 1:56 pm CST

By Glacier FarmMedia Phil Franz-Warkentin

Pulse weekly outlook: Yellow pea demand continues to rise

Mar. 17, 2021 at 8:10 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Pulse weekly outlook: Lentil exports up on year

May. 5, 2020 at 7:25 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Pulse weekly outlook: Lentil exports ahead of last year’s pace

Jun. 11, 2019 at 7:10 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Canada’s lentil exports have been good this year, according to Marlene Boersch of Mercantile Consulting Venture in Winnipeg. “At the end of April we were 26 per cent ahead of last year’s pace. Most of that is due to buying from India. Everybody’s surprised,” she said, Total lentil […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Chinese demand boosting Canadian wheat, barley exports

Jul. 18, 2018 at 9:11 pm CDT

CNS Canada — China is making major moves to import more Canadian wheat and barley this year. Data released by the Canadian Grain Commission show China more than tripled its wheat imports, taking in 979,100 tonnes as of May, up from 295,300 tonnes in the same period of 2016-17 and […]

By Terry Fries

Double-cropping project aims to cut Indian lentil imports

Feb. 19, 2015 at 11:48 am CST

Researchers on a project in India and Bangladesh say they hope it will greatly reduce their lentil imports. Farmers in the project are growing lentils in fields left fallow after rice harvests, with the help of a research and training project by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the […]

By Staff