StanChart to honour agriculture heroes for second year
Standard Chartered Bangladesh is set to hold the second edition of its AGROW Award in May to felicitate the country's agriculture heroes.
This year's award will be bigger and cover more agriculture sub-sectors, said Bitopi Das Chowdhury, head of corporate affairs of SCB. In the inaugural edition, there were five categories.
Introduced by SCB in association with Bangladesh Brand Forum, the award aims to spur innovation and modernisation among farmers.
"This initiative of ours will motivate thousands of farmers around the country to come up with exemplary contributions to the agricultural sector."
The process of selecting winners will be more rigid and wide-ranged this time, said Shariful Islam, founder of BBF.
"We will extensively collaborate with the industry experts from public and private sector for nomination and selection process," he added.
Last year, the farmer of the year award in the male category went to Khan Asaduzzaman, a cultivator from Barisal for his diversified farming activities, which cover fisheries, dairy and fruits.
Alia Begum from Faridpur got the award in the female category for her outstanding contribution to poultry, dairy and livestock farming.
SCB handed over a cheque for Tk 5 lakh each to the two award winners to facilitate their agricultural activities and help them grow.
Accepting the cheque, Asaduzzaman said: "This money will help expand my farming activities. Now, I have 20 cows and plan to increase the number as much as possible." Besides, he also plans to expand his poultry farming with the money.
Alia Begum credited the AGROW Award for the twofold production increase in her quail business and other agricultural activities.
Other award winners in 2014 were Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Lal Teer Seed, Alim Industries and Creation.
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