Dhaka, Jan. 31 -- Flour products become too costly in Bangladesh as the country's wheat acreage loses out to corn, litchi, mango and tea gardens while global supplies wobble amid 'price war'.

Farmers increasingly switch to different farming as they find more profits from other crops, said insiders.

The production of the second staple is stuck around 1.0 million tonnes for half a decade while its cropping area plunged 25 per cent in last eight years, according to market experts.

Low domestic output is prompting the country to spend more for its import when wheat-flour prices shot up to an all-time high at Tk 75-85 a kg in the retail markets, they said.

Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) data show production of wheat was almost same ...