Category:Farming-as-a-Business Courses

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Overview of courses on Farming-as-a-Business[edit | edit source]

For overall overview of capacity building programs, see 29 Training § Capacity Building Programs.
For detailed statistics of all capacity building courses in a PDF document, see File:19feb 21 BGP cap build courses.pdf.
For reports of each training course, click on the name of the course.
SL # Capacity Building Course Duration

(days)

Batches Venue/Place of Training Date Lead Organisation Participants No of Participants
Male Female Total
D-1 Training on Value Chain & Efficient Management of Agricultural Machineries 3 2 CSS, Khulna Apr 21-23, 2014 TA Community Organizers 45 29 74
D-2 Value Chain & Efficient Management of Agricultural Machineries 2 2 Patuakhali Apr 25-26, 2014 TA Community Organizers 28 22 50
D-3 Capacity Development of CDF (PFs) on Market Orientation, Value Chain Development along with MFS session facilitation (02 week) 10 1 BGP Training Room, Khulna Dec 1-11, 2014 TA Community Organizers 18 2 20
D-4 ToT for Producer Group Facilitator on Market Oriented FFS 10 1 Khulna Dec 1-11, 2014 TA Producer Group Facilitators, Market oriented FFS Organizer & TA 10 - 10
D-5 Training on Market Oriented FFS Organizer 10 2 Khulna & Patuakhali Nov 1-11, 2015 TA Market Orientedd FFS 93 6 99
D-6 Refresher Training on Market Orientation for PFs 2 1 Kuakata, Patuakhali Nov 24-25, 2015 TA Producer Group Facilitators, Market oriented FFS Organizer & TA 19 1 20
D-7 Training on Market Orientation Issues for DAE FFS Facilitator 3 3 Khulna & Patuakhali Jan-16 DAE/TA Market Oriented FFS Facilitatotr 40 20 60
D-8 Krishi Upakoroner Shathik Bebohar O Bikroy Bishoyok Retailer Training (Report: Khulna, Report: Patuakhali) 3 2 Khulna & Patuakhali Oct - Dec 2016 TA Retailors Training 49 - 49
D-9 Experience Sharing and Coordination Workshop in a Participatory Approach for FOs (03 days) 3 1 RDF Barguna Feb 19-21, 2017 TA FOs 12 10 22
D-10 Development of Farmer Trainers (FTs) for sustaining implementing FFS (03 week)

(Report: 2nd batch, Report: 3rd batch, Report: 4th batch)

15 2 Patuakhali & Khulna Jul-Nov 2017 TA FTs 42 32 74
D-11 Capacity Development of Input Providers (IP) on local opportunities, ethical business, business linkages, licencing (03 day) 3 5 Khulna & Patuakhali 2017-18 AIRN Input Providers 120 5 125
D-12 Additional Capacity Building of DAE Farmer Trainers (FTs) on Livestock and Fisheries FFS facilitation (05 days) 5 3 Khulna & Patuakhali 23 Jul to 3 Aug 2017, 16-23 Aug, 26-28 Sep, 2017, 23 Oct - 3 Nov 2017 TA DAE FTs 60 30 90
D-13 Strengthening Value Chain Strategic Workshop (02 days) 2 1 Khulna Jan-18 TA FTS and CDFs 30 10 40
D-14 Capacity Development of Resource Farmers (RF) on proper organizing collective actions and use of networking plus Market visit (01 day + 01 day) 2 25 Polder level training Dec 2017 to Seo 2020 TA Resource Farmers (WMG Members) 140 560 700
D-15 Vegetables Post Harvest Handling, Management and Business Skill Development Training (01 day) 1 3 Khulna, Satkhira & Patuakhali Oct-19 TA Resource Farmers (WMG Members) 50 50 100
D-16 Training on Knowledge Improvement of Mango Farmers of Satkhira (01 day) 1 1 Jahanabaz Madreashe, Satkhira 8-Apr-19 DAE/TA Mango Growers 27 - 27
D-17 Knowledge Improvement Training for Selective Livestock Farmers on Climate Resilience at Satkhira (01 day) 1 2 Satkhira 10-Dec-19 DAE/TA Livestock Farmers (WMG Members) 22 28 50
D-18 Linkage Building Workshop WMA-Public-Private Sector (01 day) 1 3 Khulna, Satkhira & Patuakhali Apr-19 TA WMA & Private Sector representatives 105 25 130
D-19 Seminar on Promotion of Bashak Leaf Supply Chain Development (Report 1, Report 2) 1 1 Shrimp Culture Demonstration Farm, Ellarchar, Satkhira. 18-Apr-19 TA Bashak leaf collectors and suppliers, representative from Dept. of Agri Marketting, BARI, DAE, BWDB and Square Pharma 43 7 50
Sub Total 953 837 1,790

Technical Assistance

Value chain - the set of activities that need to be performed in a specific production sector in order to deliver the end product to the consumer. Agricultural value chains typically include input supply, growing/production, processing and marketing/distribution.

Community Development Facilitator - a member of the Blue Gold technical assistance team who lived and worked in a specific polder, and provided the main point of contact between the project and the polder communities

Producer Group Facilitator

Market-oriented Farmer Field School - Farmer Field Schools dealing with cash crops or other commercial production, such as aquaculture, integrating market orientation. Specific MFS were conducted in the first years of BGP; later all FFS included market orientation.

Blue Gold Program

Farmer Field School - A group-based learning process through which farmers carry out experiential learning activities that help them to understand the ecology of their fields, based on simple experiments, regular field observations and group analysis. The knowledge gained from these activities enables participants to make their own locally specific decisions about crop management practices. This approach represents a radical departure from earlier agricultural extension programmes, in which farmers were expected to adopt generalized recommendations that are formulated by specialists from outside the community.

Department of Agricultural Extension, a department of the Ministry of Agriculture responsible for disseminating scientific research and new knowledge on agricultural practices through communication and learning activities for farmers in agriculture, agricultural marketing, nutrition and business studies.

FFS Organiser in the technical assistance (TA) team

Farmer Trainer - Well-performing and capable farmers, previously trained in Farmer Field Schools, who became FFS facilitator themselves after ToT training

Farmer Trainer - Well-performing and capable farmers, previously trained in Farmer Field Schools, who became FFS facilitator themselves after ToT training

Community Development Facilitator - a member of the Blue Gold technical assistance team who lived and worked in a specific polder, and provided the main point of contact between the project and the polder communities

Resource Farmers (RF) are members of Farmer Field Schools (FFSs). They are selected from the FFS groups to lead other members in organizing different useful collective actions and to maintain networks on behalf of the members. These RFs are given additional capacity building training to enhance their knowlege on simple record keeping and business skills.

Resource Farmers (RF) are members of Farmer Field Schools (FFSs). They are selected from the FFS groups to lead other members in organizing different useful collective actions and to maintain networks on behalf of the members. These RFs are given additional capacity building training to enhance their knowlege on simple record keeping and business skills.

Collective action - by a producer group is one way to partially overcome constraints such as in weak markets, where inputs and services essential to production innovations, are generally scarce, costly to access and/or to obtain. Collective action is working in group instead of individually in order to gain economic or social benefit. Through collective action, farmers can address constraints in their market linkages, organise their activities jointly and use their collective bargaining power to reduce input costs through bulk purchase, or to obtain services from buyers such as farm-level collection of produce

Water Management Group - The basic organizational unit in Blue Gold representing local stakeholders from a hydrological or social unit (para/village). Through Blue Gold, 511 WMGs have been formed and registered. The average WMG covers an area of around 230 ha has 365 households or a population of just over 1,500.

Water Management Association - In Blue Gold, the polder-level representative of WMGs, and signatory to an O&M Agreement with BWDB

Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute

Bangladesh Water Development Board, government agency which is responsible for surface water and groundwater management in Bangladesh, and lead implementing agency for the Blue Gold Program

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