Department of Agricultural Marketing

The department is struggling to balance the stabilization of domestic commodity prices with government initiatives to increase agricultural exports.

Established_year set to 1982, the year the organization was formally designated 'Department of Agricultural Marketing' by the Government of Bangladesh on recommendation of the Enamul Haque Khan committee -- consistent with Wikipedia and dam.pabna.gov.bd history pages. The 1935 origin in British Bengal and 1954 Directorate-level reorganization are noted in legal_basis but the modern department dates from 1982. Current DG S.M. Arif Pasha confirmed appointed 26 April 2026 per BSS News (bssnews.net/others/381688), which lists him explicitly as posted to 'Department of Agricultural Marketing'; Dhaka Tribune corroborates the same batch appointment covering 15 institutions. His prior posting (Additional Secretary, Ministry of Land) confirmed by BSS News. staff_count is null: no sanctioned or actual staff figure is publicly disclosed on dam.gov.bd or in any verified secondary source. annual_budget_bdt is null: DAM's budget is embedded in the Ministry of Agriculture allocation; no separate line item could be verified in public FY2025-26 budget documents. The 29-commodity price schedule is authorised under Section 4(Jha) of the Agricultural Marketing Act, 2018, confirmed by BD Public News citing the original gazette notification; the Ramadan 2026 price-monitoring role is documented by Bangladesh Pratidin (18 February 2026) and BSS News (14 January 2026); both are cross-verified. The Daily Star price-monitoring article (thedailystar.net/health/food/price-essentials/news/government-sets-prices-29-food-items-3567506) returned HTTP 403 and could not be directly fetched; the substantive price data is independently confirmed via BD Public News and BSS News.