• Start Date: 02/12/2021
• End Date: 31/12/2025

                                                            Rural Microenterprise Transformation Project (RMTP)

Safe Meat and Dairy products market development sub-project

The project goal is to sustainably increase the income, food security and nutrition of marginal and small farmers, and micro-entrepreneurs across selected value chains.

The development objective is the sustainable growth of selected rural commodity value chains with comparative advantage, market demand, growth potential, and backward linkages to small farmers and micro-entrepreneurs.

Budget: 6,25,00,000(Six crore and twenty five lac)TK

Area: Bhola Sadar (Veduriya, Velumiya, Dhonia, Ilisha), Borhanuddin (Gongapur, Kutuba, Debirchar, Chasra), Bauphal (Chandradip, Keshobpur, Kalaiya, Dhuliya, Kalishuri), Dosmina (Dosmina, Ronogopaldi, Charborhan, Bohorompur), Bakergonj (Bakergonj, Faridpur, Kobai, Rangosree)

The project interventions primarily target (i) the poor, (ii) the transitional poor, and (iii) the enterprising poor. An estimated 25,000 households will be direct participants of the project, of which 1,000 are microenterprise borrowers and the other 24,000 will benefit from value chain development activities.

The benefits include enhanced financial and social service delivery, improved technical capacities of livestock paraprofessionals and para extension service providers, food safety in the project areas and beyond, better awareness of food safety and nutrition intake among participants, improved animal health, value chain development through improved market access, and development and expansion of rural businesses.