Category: Knowledge for Development
Village Phone Lady passing happy life
Mukhara, Bangladesh: I have an intention to visit villages to find out the rural development. As part of this, few weeks ago I have visited a rural hinterland village named Mukhara to see the present state of Helena. Helena? You may ask me question that, who is she? Well, Helena is a Village Phone Lady […]
‘Farmers don’t commit SUICIDES where they have COOPERATIVES’: Verghese Kurien
India, June 23: HAILED AS the father of the India’s White Revolution, Verghese Kurien was responsible for setting up the Anand model of cooperative dairy development. The movement transformed over 2.5 million farmers into stakeholders in the Amul brand, the country’s largest food product manufacturers. The former chairman of the now billion-dollar brand has also […]
Pakistan: Agriculture is the most ignored sector of the economy
LAHORE: A complete transformation of the economy has hit hard the agriculture sector, which has suffered badly due to lack of interest by the government in developing the sector in accordance with the modern techniques.The latest Economic Survey reveals that the share of agriculture has reduced to 20.9 percent from the earlier 24 percent and […]
Micro Finance helped Amena Begum escape abject poverty
Borguna, June, 07: For over forty years, Amena Begum lived a life of abject poverty, disappointment and torture. She was born into a poor vegetable trading family in Barobigai village of Amtali upazilla under Borguna district in Bangladesh. At the tender age of ten, she was traded away by her father to a man thirty […]
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