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Institutions
Bank Watch: scheduled banks tracked on stability metrics.
Parliament Watch: members and their activity.
University Watch: the higher-education system, tracked.
NGO Watch: civil society and development NGOs, tracked.
Development Partner Watch: the donors, tracked.
Industry Association Watch: the apex chambers, tracked.
Early warning
The Crisis Orb: a live, level-anchored hazard board.
The LDC 2029 graduation monitor.
The national early-warning board across hazards.
Early warning for the haor flood basin.
The multi-hazard exposure atlas, by district.
Where hazards compound across the same places.
A priority index ranking places by combined risk.
Cropland exposed to flood, heat, and salinity.
The bank distress watch: stress signals across banks.
The disaster ledger: events and losses over time.
Government Watch
department
The department is struggling to balance the stabilization of domestic commodity prices with government initiatives to increase agricultural exports.
DAM Director General S.M. Arif Pasha attended a regional marketing workshop in Rajshahi regarding the PARTNER project.
DAM held a regional marketing workshop in Chattogram focusing on fair pricing, safe food production, and export capacity.
DAM reported a 36.36% annual increase in aromatic rice prices amid concerns over government export approvals.
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.