The paper analyzes the problems and prospects of rice marketing in Bangladesh by way of using
secondary data as well as primary data. Both secondary and primary data are indicative of the fact that
rice marketing in Bangladesh is marred by a wide range of problems including packaging, transporting,
storage, distribution and pricing. There is a comparative advantage in the production of high yielding
rice in Bangladesh but its marketing system is not suitable to the small farmers to bring fair price. Most
of the respondents’ opined the major causes of price hike are natural disaster, inadequate supply of
food grain in the market, less production, hoarding by traders and creating artificial food crisis in the
market, problems of communication system, increase of middlemen in the market to reach food grain to
consumers. This study is explanatory in nature which suggests measures that can benefit both the
farmers and the end users.