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Published: 02 Feb 2021 02:50 AM BdST
Updated: 02 Feb 2021 02:50 AM BdST
Procter & Gamble, the world s largest fast-moving consumer goods company, has entered into an agreement with PRAN Group to manufacture its grooming products in Bangladesh. );
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PRAN has set up a new facility to manufacture razors for P&G at the Habiganj Industrial Park, which will be operated by Advanced Personal Care Limited (APCL), a sister concern of the leading Bangladeshi conglomerate.
The new facility was virtually inaugurated by Salman F Rahman, private industry and investment advisor to prime minister.
Salman said at the event that one of the cornerstones of Bangladesh government’s economic policy is to really develop the private sector.
Pran to collect 30,000 tonnes of cassava this season
Farmers are collecting cassava crops from a field in Moulvibazar. It is planted in fallow lands and hilly areas with a little cost and labour. Photo: COLLECTED
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Local conglomerate Pran has set a target to collect 30,000 tonnes of cassava from farmers this season at a rate of Tk 8,000 to Tk 10,000 per tonne.
Cassava is a root crop, which is popularly known as `Shimul Alu in Bangladesh, and it is planted in fallow lands and hilly areas with a little cost and labour. Pran s contractual farmers have harvested cassava in Rangamati, Khagrachhari, Sylhet, Habiganj, Moulvibazar, Tangail, Mymensingh, Jamalpur and Cumilla in around 5,500 acres of land this season.