National and household food security in Bangladesh have been greatly enhanced over the past two decades by policies that have allowed a major public foodgrain distribution and relatively large pub-lic stocks to co-exist with private sector trade.

Price instability is a fact of life. In a market economy, domestic prices change in response to changes in supply, consumer preferences, policy, world prices, and other factors.

Bangladesh has successfully improved national food security over the last two decades, primarily by increasing rice production and consumption.

Micronutrients, often referred to as vitamins and minerals are vital to healthy development, disease prevention, and wellbeing.

Bangladesh has a complex rice value chain consisting of farmers, upstream paddy wholesalers and intermediaries, millers, and downstream rice traders, wholesalers and retailers.