The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday said the government will build up a bigger food stock through import and local procurement in order to ensure food security and keep food prices, especially of rice, at tolerable levels. Unveiling a package of contingency measures, he said increased allocation for agriculture and …
BEIJING: The fear of failing to grow enough corn, wheat or rice to feed its people has spurred China into action this year, but Beijing may be doing too little, too late to overcome the powerful forces of urbanization. Just as global grain markets grapple with ultralow stocks and record-high …
Out on the American farm, the ducks and pheasants are losing ground. Thousands of farmers are pulling their fields out of the government's biggest conservation program, spurning guaranteed annual payments for a chance to cash in on the boom in wheat, soybeans, corn and other crops. Last fall, they took …
As Prices Rise, Farmers Spurn Conservation By DAVID STREITFELD Published: April 9, 2008 Paul Devlin works at a bakery in Tampa, Fla. The bakery's owner said the price he paid for flour had doubled since October. Thousands of farmers are taking their fields out of the government's biggest conservation program, …
Rising food prices could spark worldwide unrest and threaten political stability, the UN's top humanitarian official warned yesterday after two days of rioting in Egypt over the doubling of prices of basic foods in a year and protests in other parts of the world. Sir John Holmes, undersecretary general for …
Govt may cut subsidies to fund rural employment scheme Khawaza Main Uddin The interim government may trim fuel and fertiliser subsidies to make up for the planned enhancement of social protection and balance the next budget, finance officials have hinted. Raising the tax-GDP ratio to 11 from 10.3 now is …
Grains gone wild What's behind the world food crisis? These days you hear a lot about the world financial crisis. But there's another world crisis under way - and it's hurting a lot more people. I'm talking about the food crisis. Over the past few years the prices of wheat, …
The President, Sindh Chamber of Agriculture Syed Qamar-uz-Zaman Shah has called upon the government to initiate concrete measures for rapid growth of agriculture sector by providing maximum incentives to growers. Addressing the members of the executive committee of the chamber here on Sunday, Syed Qamar-uz-Zaman, who is also the President …
Food crisis will end with boro harvest: Gen Moeen Bdnews24.com . Tangail The army chief, General Moeen U Ahmed, said on Sunday the ongoing food crisis would end with the boro harvest as cultivation was high this season. Addressing a rally of farmers at Bhuapur upazila in Tangail, the army …
The city is likely to face an acute shortage of milk following the decision taken by all associations of dairy farmers to observe an indefinite strike from Monday evening in protest against the city government's drive to ensure observance of the official rates of milk. The city government has fixed …
DCs asked to monitor rural job schemes Warned against harassment of farmers in procuring boro rice, disbursing fuel subsidy Mustafizur Rahman The government has ordered the deputy commissioners to make sure that farmers are not harassed or deprived of in the upcoming boro rice procurement drive and disbursement of diesel …
Rising food prices across the world are generating a great deal of heat and dust. Some of that high-decibel debate about food versus fuel and end of an era when food prices were declining, has found its way into India as well. The worst hit here is, of course, the …
4 killed at Haiti anti-poverty demo Agence France-Presse . Port-Au-Prince Four people were shot dead and some 20 injured Friday on the second day of demonstrations in Haiti against rising prices and poverty, a politician said.
Call to introduce rationing system DU Correspondent Progressive Students' Alliance, a combine of five left leaning student organisations, on Saturday demanded introduction of rationing system to avert possible famine in the country. At a rally held in front of the Central Library at Dhaka University, leaders of the alliance also …
UNP as a democratic party should prescribe solutions to arrest rising prices of essential commodities, said Deputy Finance and State Revenue Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya. Minister Siyambalapitiya was speaking at the opening of Lankaputhra Development Bank's Kandy branch. Prices of imported food items have doubled and the oil prices have been …
Food prices are on the rise and not only in India. The increase has been sharper still in in other Asian counties, such as Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Myanmar. The continent is paying for its neglect of agricultural research and irrigation. There has neen a dwindling of prime land …
The bumper potato harvest this year is ironically turning out to be bad news for farmers in Uttar Pradesh. With storage houses already full to capacity, the market is flooded with the produce, causing a steep fall in prices. Farmers in Kanpur, Etawah, Farukkhabad and others districts have been forced …
Accusing the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of having "miserably failed' to contain the skyrocketing prices of essential commodities, fruits and vegetables, the Janata Dal (United) on Wednesday sought the resignation of the Congress-led coalition government. Stating that the price rise had made life hell for the common man, JD(U) …
Rice stock position for the public distribution system in the State is comfortable. The Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation (TNCSC) has stocked 6.5 lakh tonnes of paddy and 2.5 lakh tonnes of rice. In addition, the State is getting 2.96 tonnes of rice from the Central pool both under above …
Dhaka urges developed countries to help check food price hike United News of Bangladesh . New York The foreign adviser, Iftekhar Ahmed, has urged the surplus developed countries to do more to rein in the rising food price.
