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RMTP-supported five entrepreneurs awarded
To honor farmers, entrepreneurs, and agricultural scientists, the ‘City Group-Prothom Alo Agriculture Award-2024’ was held on 31 December 2024, at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the capital. A total of 1,064 applications were submitted for the awards. The jury, led by former Vice Chancellor and Professor Emeritus of Bangladesh Agricultural University, Dr MA Sattar Mandal, evaluated the submissions and selected the winners.
Eight individuals received awards in 6 categories, including a lifetime achievement award. Notably, five of the awardees were supported by PKSF’s RMTP project. Of them, young entrepreneur Md Golam Sarwar from Thakurgaon won in the ‘Best Agricultural Entrepreneur’ category for producing and marketing maize silage as cattle feed. Two RMTP-supported entrepreneurs received the ‘Best Woman in Agriculture’ award. Preetilata Tripura from Koila village in Khagrachari achieved remarkable success in black pepper cultivation. The other winner, Masuma Akter from Bogura, produces beef pickles and exports them to 17 countries. Md Shohidul Islam, another PKSF-supported entrepreneur from Kathalbari, Lalpur, Natore, received the ‘Best Agricultural Brand’ award for his branding of ‘Rosella Tea’. Additionally, Kazi Ashraful Hassan, Executive Director of Society Development Committee, a Partner Organization of PKSF, won the ‘Best Agricultural Innovation’ award for his work in household waste management and the production of organic fertilizer.
The awards were presented by former caretaker government advisor Hossain Zillur Rahman, the Chief Guest of the event. Matiur Rahman, Editor of Prothom Alo, and Zafor Uddin Siddiqui, Executive Director of City Group, handed over the crests to the awardees.
