11. Market Development in the Greater Dinajpur Vegetable Sector

Client

Swisscontact-Katalyst

Location

Greater Dinajpur, Bangladesh

Duration

33 Months (July 2006 – March 2009)
Initial Duration:15 Months (July 2006 – September 2007)
Extended Duration: 18 Months (October 2007 – March 2009)

Status

Completed

Background

After having conducted a comprehensive sub-sector study, the project revealed several constraints like farmers having lack of awareness and knowledge about quality seeds, seed farming techniques, post-production processing and preservation, appropriate dose of fertilizers (both chemical and compost), micronutrients & pesticides, profitable crop cycle & cropping pattern. Besides, unavailability of technical know-how market linkage was also poor in the region and the service market was not operating in favor of them. The government service was not sufficient for the farmers, and the private sector mostly followed a channel that was not very useful for the famers to get the required information. Understanding the constraints, GMark designed several interventions that follow the Market Development Approach (MDA).

Intervention Areas

To make the market work for the poor in a sustainable manner, GMark facilitated the following interventions in the region.