BATB, ATDP-II to help vegetable export
Star Business Report
British American Tobacco Bangladesh (BATB) has signed an agreement with Agro-based Industries and Technology Development Project-II (ATDP-II) to assist farmers of Bangladesh in producing quality vegetables for export. Under the agreement, ATDP will provide technical and marketing services to BATB, which will then work closely with selected farmers to improve their vegetable quality, according to a BATB press release issued in Dhaka yesterday. Stephen Daintith, managing director of BATB, and James Dawson, ATDP chief of Party, formally signed the agreement on Monday at the BATB office. The two organisations have already worked together on a pre-investment study which shows that producing export quality vegetable in Bangladesh is extremely feasible. BATB has more than 15,000 contract farmers and many business managers with a strong agricultural knowledge base that spreads all over the country. ATDP-II is an agribusiness-consulting organisation with a mission to promote growth of privately-owned agribusiness in Bangladesh.
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