Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development (BIID), Grameenphone and Department of Agricultural Extension yesterday launched a campaign to promote ICT-enabled e-Krishok services in agriculture.
The campaign, Smart Farmer, Smart Future, targets young farmers to help improve livelihood by positioning agriculture as a distinct profession and highlighting the benefits of mobile and internet services in agriculture, Grameenphone said in a statement.
Sunil Kanti Bose, chairman of Bangla-desh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, and Nazrul Islam Khan, ICT secretary, attended the launch at the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council auditorium in Dhaka. The campaign will reach out to 100,000 farmers.
As many as 100 winners will be selected through the competition to generate ideas on how mobile phones and the internet can help increase their income.
BIID launched the e-Krishok campaign in 2008 in 10 locations and transformed it into a service proposition in 2010. Later it was spread to 350 upazilas in collaboration with Grameenphone, Katalyst and ACI Ltd.
Adapted from the DailyStar.net
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