PROOFS, an innovative project for farmers’ food security, will be launched at Lakeshore Hotel in the capital on Wednesday. Two private business firms — Metal Seed and Ispahani will sign a Memorandum of Understanding at the launching ceremony to implement the project. Netherlands Ambassador in Dhaka Gerben de Jong and managing director of AFTAB Group Fazle Rahim Khan will be present on the occasion, said a press release. The project will be implemented in four districts of the Northwest Bangladesh and three districts of Southern Bangladesh covering 80,000 households. ICCO cooperation, iDE and BoP Innovation Center are jointly going to implement it funded by the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The aim of the project is to improve food security and prevent malnutrition for household level of the farmers. It will empower farmers with business skills and knowledge like marketing, management, finance and networking in order to make their small farms more profitable and the produce more nutritious. – UNB
