The Krishi Bazar Ltd mobile app has been inaugurated in Rangpur city aiming at building a healthy nation by producing safe agricultural products, including vegetables, and delivering those to consumers at fair prices.
The Krishi Bazar mobile app is an online platform that acts as a digital marketplace for agricultural products allowing farmers to sell their produce and consumers to buy those across the country.
Deputy Director of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) Md Sirajul Islam inaugurated the app in a colorful function held at the Public Library ground in the city on Sunday.
The Krishi Bazar Limited with the support of the Nutrition in City Ecosystems (NICE) project of Sustainable Agriculture Foundation and Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO) organised the function.
NICE project manager Moshfequl Alam Talukder, medical officer at the civil surgeon鈥檚 office Md Akhtarruzzaman Shuvo and Krishi Bazar Limited Chairman Gausul Azam Tutul addressed the event.
Safe vegetable producer agricultural entrepreneurs Abul Kalam Azad, Abdur Rashid and Arun Kumar Roy also spoke.
The speakers said that the Krishi Bazar app has been launched to deliver safe vegetables to consumers at fair prices. Through this app, a consumer can order vegetables from home.
Along with this, safe vegetables are being sold through 24 rickshaw vans at different points in all 33 wards of Rangpur city on the initiative of some NGOs.
The DAE Deputy Director Sirajul Islam said, 鈥業n our busy lives, we all always want safe products. Contract farmers of the Krishi Bazar Ltd produce safe vegetables and sell them to consumers through the app and van to ensure our safe food and nutrition.鈥�
鈥楤esides, farmers are also getting fair prices for their crops. The DAE will continue to work with all stakeholders concerned to spread this model throughout the district,鈥� he said.
Gawsul Azam Tutul said, 鈥榃e have 50 farmer leaders on a contractual basis.聽 They arrange for safe vegetable production, training and sale using mobile vans through other farmers.鈥�
鈥業n the future, consumers will be able to see how much fertilizer has been added to the vegetables purchased through the app and how they were produced,鈥� he said.
Talking to BSS after the inaugural function, consumers Abdur Rahman, Abdul Hye, Lubna Ahmed, Aklima Khatun, Ferdousi Ara Mahmuda and Mansur Ahmed welcomed this initiative of the Krishi Bazar Ltd to provide safe vegetables at affordable prices.