UCB holds training for agri entrepreneurs

United Commercial Bank PLC (UCB) organised a daylong agricultural entrepreneurship skills development training titled "Voroshar Notun Janala" at Cumilla Fun Town Park yesterday under an Agro-CSR Project 2023. 

Arranged as per Bangladesh Bank's directives, the programme had over 500 agricultural entrepreneurs in attendance from 17 upazilas of Cumilla district, said a press release.

"We are working…so that farmers can produce and market crops they prefer by taking loans on easy terms," said ATM Tahmiduzzaman, deputy managing director and company secretary of the UCB, on inaugurating the programme as chief guest.

Mohammad Shah Alam Bhuiyan and Mohammad Khorshed Alam, deputy managing directors of the bank, Rezaul Karim Siddique, presenter of Bangladesh Television's Mati O Manush, Md Abdul Hafiz, headmaster of Cumilla Zila School, and Sheikh Ajijur Rahman, additional deputy director of the Department of Agricultural Extension in Cumilla, were present.