Projects Details
60 batch Farmer’s Training on Post harvest and Primary Processing
Agriculture is the third highest contributor to the GDP of the country. The Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Bangladesh had taken Smallholder Agricultural Competitiveness Project (SACP) aiming to increase the growth of agriculture sector of the country with the ultimate objective to reduce the poverty of the farmers. Department of Agricultural Marketing (DAM) has planned to provide training to the farmers on post-harvest and primary processing of high value crops (HVCs) and building market linkage so that the farmers can get fair price of their products. Developing small scale entrepreneurship among farmers is also an important objective of the training project. Therefore, the training will include post-harvest management and quality assurance, small scale food processing operations, establish small scale pack house, building post-harvest market linkage, etc for increasing the income of the farmers and enhance livelihood that will help to further improvement of agricultural sector as well as the economy of Bangladesh. The contract was made on 27 April 2021 between Component Director, Smallholder Agricultural Competitiveness Project, Department of Agricultural Marketing, and, on the other hand, joint venture between Shishu Protiva Bikash Kendro (SPBK) and Human Economic Development Society (HEDS). We provided trainings to 60 batches of farmers on post-harvest and primary processing at Lalmohan, Bhola.