With financial support from Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd.,the BRAC Microfinance Programme has initiated a project to provide modern agricultural machinery, seeds, and crop storage facilities free of cost to small-scale farmers in the rural areas.
The agricultural machinery includes combine harvesters, power tillers, threshers, power reapers, seeding and implantation machines, and solar pumps.
The purpose behind this initiative is to tackle disasters, modernise agriculture, increase production, and alleviate the lack of necessary labour.On Wednesday Combine Harvester was distributed among local farmers in Madhabpur, Habiganj district.
Arinjoy Dhar, Senior Director; Associate Director, Md Reaz Uddin, and Programme Head, Md Belayet Hossan of BRAC Microfinance Programme; as well as Vice President Syed Parvez Mahmud and Assistant Vice President Md Zakir Hossain from Dutch-Bangla Bank, were present at the event.
During the event, selected participants were handed the Combine Harvesters. This initiative will enable local farmers to harvest rice more efficiently at a faster pace, protecting their paddy from sudden floods, and other natural calamities. They will also benefit financially by reducing costs and renting out these machineries for rice harvesting to others.
