In addition to providing artificial intelligence technology services to farmers, e-Polli, the country’s first technology-based agricultural fintech venture with crowdfunding, has launched a specialized ‘Krishi Privilege Card’ service to provide them with health, shopping and travel facilities. Through this card, a farmer will get up to 30 percent discount on treatment at Ibn Sina and Shomorita Hospitals in Dhaka apart from local hospitals, travel from his own area and purchase of fertilizer or necessary agricultural inputs.
e-Polli co-founder and CFO Mohammad Ali inaugurated this program by handing over the ‘e-Polli Privilege Card’ to a farmer from Manikganj, Md. Dulal Mia at a restaurant in the capital on Saturday night.
e-Polli co-founders Junaid Ahmed and SM Abdus Salam Mamun, e-CAB rural e-commerce Chairman Ibrahim Khalil, e-CAB founding member Mir Shahed Ali, BIJF vice-president Nazneen Nahar and others were present in this ceremony.
Meanwhile, 13 investors participating in the animal husbandry program through crowdsourcing were given investment checks with dividends in view of Eid al-Adha. Introduced organically produced rice, oil and ghee marketed under its own brand name. In the event, the e-Polli authorities also announced to start selling these products through mobile app or online. 3 products specialized in PollyFood brand were also gifted to investors, farmers and invited guests.
In the event, the entrepreneurs said that e-Polli is building an experimental investment-cultivation-marketing ecosystem in Sirajganj and Savar to empower farmers and connect common people to agriculture by combining technology and innovation. They will soon expand the project to Keranigranj to develop farmers’ family members as agri-entrepreneurs to ensure food security and increase farmers’ income. Under the project, IoT and cloud-based agricultural information services are being provided to farmers.
Nurul Islam, Director, Corporate Affairs, e-Polli; Kaniz Fatima, Director, Strategic Enterprises; Abu Bakar Siddiqui, Adviser on Economic Inclusion and Abdur Rahman, Supply Chain Advisor were also present among others in this program.