Despite outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic import of oils and fats in Bangladesh during the first 6 months of 2020 witnessed an upward trend by 4.82 per cent compared to the corresponding period of 2019. During the period total import of oils and fats was about 1.6 million tonnes against 1.53 millio

Bangladesh is a country of 165 million people and consumes about 3.0 million tonnes of oils and fats as per statistics of 2018. Due to insufficient indigenous production, almost 90 per cent of these annual requirements of oils and fats are met through import. During the last couple of years average