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January 3, 2023

MoU Signing on farm mechanization and modernization of the processing sector

A memorandum of understanding was signed in Dhaka on Saturday between the eight POs of Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) and Trade Global Limited for increasing the production of animal products and reducing production costs to make it a profitable sector. The main objective of the agreement is to transform the related businesses into profitable businesses through the development of sales and service centers in 36 Upazilas of 12 districts in the area of PKSF’s Rural Microenterprise Transformation Project (RMTP) through the modernization of the farm mechanization, dairy and meat processing sector at the village level.

 

At the MoU signing event, Dr. SM Niaz Mahmud, Sector Value Chain Specialist (Livestock) of PKSF, Managing Director of Trade Global Limited Golam Rabbani and Executive Director Mr. AQM Shafiqur Rauf, and the Executive Heads of eight POs of PKSF.

SM Niaz Mahmood said at the meeting that we are collaborating with the government to address the SDGs’. Our main goal is to ensure safe and nutritious food and eradicate poverty. Rural Micro Enterprise Transformation Project (RMTP) aims to extend the financial services of microenterprises to increase the income, food security, and nutrition status of marginal farmers, entrepreneurs, and other market actors involved in value chain interventions of agricultural products. And with this initiative, Trade Global Limited will provide modern technology products for farm mechanization at affordable prices to small entrepreneurs.

RMTP project is implementing eight value chain sub-projects on “Market system development of safe meat and dairy products” in the livestock sector. 

 

By Ehsanul Habib
News & Events
January 3, 2023

Project participant selection through KoBo App

The RMTP is currently implementing 65 value chain sub-projects across the country. In order to select project participants effectively and appropriately, data are being collected through the project-implementing POs using KoBo Toolbox. The project participants are chosen from diverse segments of society, including men, women, youths, socially excluded individuals, extremely poor, poor, transitional poor and enterprising poor. The data gathered through KoBo can be utilized to track the individual progress of participants throughout the project’s lifecycle.  

By Ehsanul Habib
News & Events
December 5, 2022

MoU signing for developing livestock sectors in the southern region of Bangladesh

PKSF and IFAD funded Rural Microenterprise Transformation Project’s implementing partner Grameen Jano Unnayan Sangstha (GJUS), and the Department of Microbiology and Public Health of Patuakhali University of Science and Technology (PSTU) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 05 December 2022.

Professor Dr. Farzana Islam Rumi, Chairman of the Microbiology and Public Health Department of PSTU, and Dr. Md. Khalilur Rahman, Deputy Director (Technical) of GJUS signed the MoU on behalf of their respective institutions.  

Under the MoU, the Microbiology and Public Health Department of PSTU and GJUS will work together to develop livestock sectors in the southern region of Bangladesh by applying modern research. 

In addition, PSTU will ensure the diagnosis of diseases in cattle and buffalo; play a significant role to produce safe food (milk, meat, and dairy products); and provide technical and technological training to the project participants and GJUS staff.    

Dr. Swadesh Chandra Samanta, the Vice-Chancellor of Patuakhali University of Science and Technology (PSTU); Professor Dr. Farzana Islam Rumi, the Chairman of the Microbiology and Public Health Department of PSTU; Zakir Hossain Mohin, Executive Director of GJUS; and Dr. Md. Khalilur Rahman, Deputy Director (Technical) of GJUS were present in the MoU signing ceremony.   

By Ehsanul Habib