Strategy:
Bangladesh is an agriculture country. More than 80% people depend on agriculture. The productive land is more limited than the population growth. From the ancient period, the social customs of Bangladesh based on agriculture. 51% people in the rural area lives on agriculture. On the other hand, often 22 % support of GDP comes from agriculture sector and agricultural people specially marginal and micro level farmers obtain the agriculture as the key power of their livelihood.  Sixty four percent farmers of Bangladesh manage 37% of their productive land. According to the statistics, 41% peoples are living under the poverty line those who have multifarious working experience, productivity and well qualified. The marginal and small farmers are the barrier in the development of Bangladesh in the socio-economic condition especially in the economic development of agriculture for the lack of proper support in the agricultural investment, natural disaster, insufficiency of land, modern technology in the agriculture and agricultural materials. As a result, they are losing their visual resources and they are involving gradually in the poor people in the country. SKS Foundation has been implementing in easy term loan and agricultural activities supported by PKSF in 6 Districts of 16 Upazilas with those people to involve in Micro-credit program for removing the poverty in our country. Under this program, the technical persons are helping directly to the poor farmers in the villages through the modern technology of agriculture. SKS Foundation has provided agricultural loan to 6731 peoples till now. Besides this, season loan has been provided to 5300 poor farmers and the total amount of loan outstanding 3, 88, 03042.00.

Objectives:
Eradicating poverty by involving people in Micro-credit program and agricultural activities.

Activities:
SKS has provided the following things in the agricultural product:

  • Loan disbursement in the basis of demand at the right time.
  • Cooperate to get the agricultural materials.
  • Ensure the technical support by the help of PA technical and ATO in the farmers.
  • Field day observance and result exhibition in the farmers’ level.
  • Market linkage creation for selling the agricultural productivity.
  • Training organizes in the need based.