UCB Agricultural Entrepreneurship Training hold in Mymensing, Netrakona

A day long agricultural entrepreneurship skills development training of Mymensingh district at Brac Learning Center under the initiative of Agro-CSR Project 2023 'Voroshar Notun Janala' to provide support to agriculture sector as part of social responsibility of United Commercial Bank PlC (UCB) as per direction of the Bangladesh Bank.

More than 370 agricultural entrepreneurs from 13 upazilas of Mymensing district were present in this training. 

In the opening ceremony, the chief guest, Deputy Managing Director and Company Secretary of United Commercial Bank PLC, ATM Tahmiduzzaman FCS said, we are the first among the private banks to create agricultural entrepreneurship and create incentives at the doorstep of marginal farmers. We are working in an effort so that farmers can produce and market their desired crops by taking loans on easy terms. That's why we named our project 'Voroshar Notun Janala'. We mainly want to instill confidence in the minds of marginal farmers. We are working towards that goal.''

Md Shah Alam Bhuyan, Deputy Managing Director of United Commercial Bank PLC, Rezaul Karim Siddique, presenter of Bangladesh Television's Mati O Manhus program and Agri-information analyst, Fulpur Upazila Agriculture officer Md. Faruque Ahammed, Upazila livestock officer Abdur Rezzak and UCB Branch Manager Jubair Ebne Jahan officials also spoke at the opening ceremony.

On the same day, a similar type of skill development training was held for 300 agricultural entrepreneurs from 10 upazilas of the district at the Netrokana Zila auditorium.

Apart from UCB high officials Md Buruzzaman, Deputy Director, Department of Agriculture Extension, Mohidul Haq Khan, Vice president Bsafe Foundation, UCB's Netrokana Branch Manager Md. Iqbal Kabir also spoke at the event.

In both the training sessions in Mymensing and Netrakona, the resource persons discussed marketing, managerial, banking and financial aspects of agricultural enterprises, and answered the various queries of the entrepreneurs.

A total of 17,000 agricultural entrepreneurs from around 500 upazilas across the country will be trained under this project. Apart from this, 50 upazilas of the country will be developed as 'model areas' for the prosperity of agriculture by providing modern machinery support to agricultural entrepreneurs.

Beside this, under this project, research initiatives have been undertaken on the development of climate-smart agricultural marketing systems to improve food and nutritional security of vulnerable pastoralist households in Bangladesh.