Sunday, November 17, 2024

Agritech startup iFarmer raises $2.1 million

Business Desk : dhakamirror.com iFarmer, a full-stack agriculture platform providing agri based services to farmers, has recently raised $2.1 million in a new financing round, maintaining its accelerated growth, said a press release. IDLC Venture Capital Fund, the VC arm of IDLC Finance, one of the largest non- banking financial institutions in Bangladesh, led the ... Read more

A young agro enthusiast helping farmers in Tangail

Mirza Shakil When the pandemic hit and in-person classes at universities were suspended, Shakil Ahmed, then a final-year student of agriculture department at Noakhali Science and Technology University, had returned home. But he refused to sit idle, and so, asked his father for a plot of land to farm squash. The yield was massive as ... Read more