Enterprise facilitation becomes boon for small business

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RAJSHAHI, March 28, 2019 (BSS)- Rafiqul Islam Raju, 38, has become a
successful turkey bird farmer coupled with elevating his level of confidence
of becoming an unbeaten small entrepreneur after the best uses of modern
knowledge and idea.

Raju, a resident of Barobaria village under Paba Upazila in the district,
has been operating a turkey bird farm successfully. After starting the
business with 45 birds, he’s now the owner of 120 others worth around Taka
3.5 lakh with gap of only three to four months.

He turned his small business profitable after adopting the idea of trinity
of management, a method for making small and medium business sustainable.

He, among four others including two women, exposed their successes of
small business while addressing a programme of client celebration at Ashrai
Training and Resource Centre in the district today.

Under its Enterprise Facilitation pilot project, Heifer International
Bangladesh (HIB) hosted the ceremony for its 65 clients, who shared their
experience briefly on how to operating small and medium enterprises like
vermin-composting, poultry bird farming and utensil business successfully.

Shariful Islam, In-country trainer of HIB, gave an overview of the project
which is being implemented in three Unions of Paba and Mohanpur Upazilas
involving 1,500 community people.

He says the project intends to extend support towards fostering economic
empowerment of small and medium enterprises through boosting their business
competence.

Facilitating clients to identify their passionate area and building team as
per Trinity of Management methodology side by side with facilitating linkage
development between clients and service providers are the main working fields
of the venture.

HIB Senior Training Manager Basubroto Chowdhury, who chaired the meeting,
said: Our effort is not enough to attain the cherished goal of turning the
rural level small businesses sustainable but more other works need to be
done.”

Branch Managers of Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank Anjuman Shahana Parveen and
Saiful Islam, Union Parishad Chairmen Golam Mostofa and Al Amin Biswash,
Upazila Agriculture Officer Sharmin Sultana and Senior Upazila Fisheries
Officer Abul Kalam Azad also spoke on the occasion.