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Bangladesh Food Import Projection

Bangladesh is the third largest food importer in the world. It imports over $15 billion worth of food annually or about 11 percent of its total food consumption. Imports include 5 MMT of grain (3.57 MMT is wheat), plus palm oil, milk powder, and other products. Roughly 3.5 percent of its food imports come from the U.S. It also has one of the lowest ratios of arable land per capita of all major countries. Heavy monsoon rains over the past three months destroyed 1.1 MMT of rice and the government recently said it would loosen import restrictions to facilitate the importation of 500 KMT of rice. The IMF describes Bangladesh as one of the most-climate exposed “big” countries in the world. It is projected to lose 17 percent of its land area...

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