Bangladesh's food grain imports fall sharply

DHAKA, June 24 (Xinbhua) -- Bangladesh's food grain import during July-April period of the outgoing 2011-12 fiscal year ending this month declined sharply by more than 50 percent year-on- year, said a central bank official of Sunday.

Quoting Bangladesh Bank (BB) data, the official who preferred to be unnamed said Bangladesh's rice import plunged 56.32 percent year-on-year to 283.8 million U.S. dollars during the first 10 months of the current fiscal year 2011-12 (July 2011-June 2012).