Banglalink has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) recently in order to connect the Sub Assistant Agriculture Officers (SAAOs) throughout the country with farmers of respective blocks. Banglalink has always supported the agriculture sector with utmost passion in order to make it digitised by introducing different mobile-based ICT services and it has come up with innovative services like Banglalink Krishi Jigyasha, Banglalink Krishi Bazar and Banglalink-Channel I Krishi News etc, , said a press release on Sunday.
Since its inception, Banglalink has been continuously working on bringing pioneering services for facilitating the people affiliated with the agro sector.
The objective of this step is to bring the agriculture sector of Bangladesh in the realm of revolutionary technological benefit under the concept of e-Agriculture. This joint initiative of DAE and Banglalink will enable all the farmers of Bangladesh with the opportunity to get connected with the field level extension officer (Sub Assistant Agriculture Officer) of their respective blocks just by dialing a single code. Thus the field level extension officers will be able to solve maximum number of agriculture related problems of the farmers in their territory.
From Banglalink, Chief Commercial Officer Shihab Ahmed, Marketing Director Solaiman Alam, Deputy Director of Marketing Jalal Hossain, Senior Director of GR & Regulatory Affairs Taimur Rahman and DAE Director General AZM Momtajul Karim, Director (Administration and Finance) Md Tofazzal Hossain, Director (Field Service) Piyush Kanti Sarkar, Director (Crops) Nurush Shafiur Rahman, Director (Plant Protection) Mojubul Haque Miah and Director (Planning, Project Implementation and ICT) Shamsuddin Ahmad were present.
