Narrative Description of the Project:

This assignment was undertaken by Smallholder Agricultural Competitiveness Project (SACP), Department of Agriculture Marketing (DAM), Ministry of Agriculture funded by International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The assignment duration was of 04 (four) months (March to June 2021) and the training location was Amtoli, Barguna, Bangladesh. The main goal of this project was to contribute Bangladesh’s agriculture smallholder’s responsiveness and competitiveness in high value crops (HVC) production and marketing of fresh and/ or processed products. The project’s target was to increase farmer income and livelihood through demand- led productivity growth, diversification, and marketing in a changing climate condition. The main objective of the assignment was to enhance the capacity of farmers in business management skills of high value crops and increase farmer’s income and their livelihood. Under this assignment a total of 1500 participants received training in 60 (sixty) batches.

Key Activities:

• Inception meeting with DAM officials and submitted the inception report
• Conducted Training Needs Assessment (TNA) and desk review of the project documents
• Revised the training module (both Bangla and English) to conduct training.
• Implemented training schedule for 60 (sixty) batches.
• Conducted the training with different stakeholders such as farmers, businessmen, consumers, DAM officials, etc. It works in a diverse range of agricultural product marketing such as vegetables, cereals, fruits.
• Training pre & post assessment