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Changing the Face of Agriculture: Tailoring Financial Services for the Rural Economy.

While agriculture’s share of GDP in much of the world has dropped, the developing world still depends on agriculture to provide livelihoods. The rural economy of Bangladesh has experienced significant structural changes during the recent decades. Firstly, the land available for crop cultivation has been shrinking at about 1 percent per annum, which meant a reduction of average farm size from 0.81 hectare in 1983/84 to 0.61 hectare in 1996 with simultaneous increase in fragmentation and…See More
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Jun 12, 2011
Mohd.Fahad Ifaz commented on Nisha Dutt's blog post The Last Mile Challenge - Need To Go Beyond The Village Level Entrepreneur Model
"The VLE model can only work if the risk of business is equally shared.Now I am not saying this will happen overnight as we have to understand the context of the VLE`s ,these people are risk averse they will not go into this business in the first…"
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"Zafar bhai ...thanx for accepting  the invitation"
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"Saif bhai im good..and work is ok as well..football khelen na ?"
Jun 12, 2011
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"not yet! but gonna do that soon i guess..pls let me know if any new thng comes up regarding that issue. tc n stay fine! :)"
Jun 12, 2011
Mohd.Fahad Ifaz replied to M. Saifullah's discussion Contract Farming Model for ACI Agribusinesses in the group Bangladesh Network
"At Katalyst the Rural C team we try to faciliate contract farming for Maize and potatao sectors .We started working with indivudual contractors in the north and then as a scale up went went to create Super Contractors who is basically a feed mill…"
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"hey ..yeah work is good ..trying to work with some new things ....btw ..did u contact with AFE regarding the Potato thingi?"
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"Hi Fahd, likewise :) how is everything, hows work and life...stay cool..."
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"hey hi! good to see u too! so hows ur work going on?"
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"SAIF bhai ..wats up ?? gud to see u here :-)"
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Katalyst
Website
http://katalyst.com.bd
Title
Business Consultant
About My Work
In charge of interventions in the rural sector following a M4P approach
Sector
Business
Country Interest
Malawi, Nigeria, Bangladesh
Issues of Interest
Inclusive Business: Value Chains, Working in partnership, Working with farmers & the informal sector, Role of donors/governments
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Mohd.Fahad Ifaz's Blog

Journey to the bottom fo the Pyramid

“Poverty knows no such boundaries.” In every part of the continents there is poverty and that is a fact. Various aid agencies and governments had been helping hand and hand to eliminate poverty for more than 50 years. There are companies fighting disease with educational campaigns and innovative products. Economic pyramid shows the distribution of wealth and the capacity of the world to generate income. At the top of the pyramid are the wealthy and at the bottom are the poor. 4 billion…

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Posted on June 24, 2011 at 19:52

Changing the Face of Agriculture: Tailoring Financial Services for the Rural Economy.

While agriculture’s share of GDP in much of the world has dropped, the developing world still depends on agriculture to provide livelihoods. The rural economy of Bangladesh has experienced significant structural changes during the recent decades. Firstly, the land available for crop cultivation has been shrinking at about 1 percent per annum, which meant a reduction of average farm size from 0.81 hectare in 1983/84 to 0.61 hectare in 1996 with simultaneous…

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Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:49

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At 7:20 on June 12, 2011, Asma Afrin Haque said…

not yet! but gonna do that soon i guess..pls let me know if any new thng comes up regarding that issue.

tc n stay fine! :)

At 17:25 on June 8, 2011, Saif M M Islam said…
Hi Fahd, likewise :) how is everything, hows work and life...stay cool...
At 16:45 on June 8, 2011, Asma Afrin Haque said…
hey hi! good to see u too! so hows ur work going on?
At 8:21 on June 6, 2011, Parveen Sultana Huda said…
Hi Fahad! It was great to meet you the other day. If you have time - maybe you can write a blog about your work with the small scale Potato Chips producers. It would be of great interest to us.
At 11:24 on June 5, 2011, Md. Abu Yousuf said…
Welcome to Business Innovation Facility's Knowledge Hub. Please also join Bangladesh Network to take part in country specific discussion.
 
 
 
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