Russia has offered to export 200,000 tons of wheat to Bangladesh, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder told parliament on Thursday.
In reply to a tabled question from Awami League MP from Dhaka Shafiul Islam, the minister said the foreign ministry has approached different wheat exporting countries for import as the prices of wheat and flour have gone up along with various food grains due to the war between Ukraine and Russia.
“Russia already has offered to export 200,000 tons of wheat to Bangladesh. Besides, a letter has been sent to the Bangladesh High Commission in Delhi to import wheat from India at government and private levels,” the food minister said.