The CDAIS Bangladesh team visited the new executive chairman of the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council – the CDAIS national executing agency – today to brief him about the project and its activities. The team said goodbye to Dr Mohammed Shahjahan, who is retiring from his role as national project coordinator, and welcomed the new NPC, Dr Baktear Hossain.”

We also visited the Department of Agricultural Marketing and met the DG, Mr Mahoob Ahmed, who is Steering Committee member, Abdul Rahman, who serves on our Taskforce and Dr Fatema Wadud (Shila) National Innovation Facilitator today and discussed the organisational assessment we will do with them.