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Enabling fruits and vegetable export to improve farm income

Bangladesh can ensure additional income by exporting its surplus fruits and vegetables abroad by maintaining some measures. A round table meeting on “Enabling fruits and vegetable export to improve farm income” was held at the Daily Star Center in Dhaka on 24th of October, 2019. Md Abdur Rouf, Additional secretary to agriculture ministry, Albert Schirring, global crop manager for vegetables and potatoes of Bayer CropScience, Shusmita Anis, managing director of ACI Formulations Limited along with other experts and scientists of the industry were present in the meeting to discuss on the topic.

Shusmita Anis, managing director of ACI Formulations Limited Expressed that under ACI logistic, Swapno were running contract farming with over 400 farmers to get quality products. She added that there should be a public-private partnership to work together to ensure quality of agricultural products with the help of GAP (Good agricultural practice).

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