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AMIS welcomes Bangladesh as new participating country

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01 Feb 2024

Bangladesh officially joined AMIS on 1 October 2023 and is now fully integrated in all of the AMIS products and publications. From February 2024 onwards, the country will be covered in the monthly AMIS Market Monitor reports while current supply and demand estimates can be found in the AMIS Market Database.

Bangladesh was officially welcomed to AMIS during the November 2023 meeting of the Global Food Market Information Group. In his statement to fellow country representatives, Paritosh Hajra, Joint Secretary of the Bangladesh Ministry of Agriculture, emphasized that AMIS constitutes "an excellent source of […] information, knowledge, and policy guidelines", which will help transform Bangladesh's agri-food system through "better data collection and better decision making”.

Bangladesh is the world's third largest producer of rice, accounting for some 7 percent of global outputs. Thanks to the country's inclusion, AMIS participants now represent more than 85 percent of total rice production, which will further strengthen the initiative’s capacity to monitor global food security.