Case study about a local business man Named Ansar ali. on basis of a report of newspaper called financial express.

1. Tale of a Frontiersman
By
Moin Sarker
Mahfuja Ferdoues Munni
Nafiz Imtiaj Fahim

2. Introduction
Ansar Ali, a unique farmer who
lives in a remote village called
Bozruk Shukra in Bogra's
Shivganj upazila. He comes
from a marginal farming family.
Since his birth, his life has been
rooted in agriculture. This
unique farmer moved into
farming foreign vegetables-
that's an exceptional story to
tell!

3. • Vegetables hold a significant place amongst food items.
• Almost everywhere around the world, vegetables are produced.
• Few countries depend on imported vegetables.
• Bangladesh, India and South Asian countries have developed the export
market all around the world. Due to climate change, the snow-covered
regions of Europe have turned warmer and at those warm regions,
vegetables are cultivated in an extended method.
• In Europe, USA, Middle-East and many other places, the expatriate
Bangladeshis have converted fallow lands into fertile and cultivable.
They're successfully producing diverse vegetables. You wouldn't believe it
unless or until you see it with your own eyes. Successful Bangladeshi
entrepreneurs like Noor Mohammad in Oman, Md. Farid in Qatar, Nazrul
Islam in USA- their successful produce are spreading across the world.
• Ansar Ali bought a land of 94 decimals and thought of producing
vegetables.

4. Faces Problems & Solving
• He started off with balsam apple. It didn't work.
• Then he started cauliflower and the first year went
in vain.
• His first harvest was not successful due to lack of
knowledge on cultivation methods.

5. Discussions
Later, he went to Mahasthangarh and learnt how to use the
right technology to get the produce in plenty. Afterwards, he
personally trained hundreds of farmers who later became
hugely successful. His wife said, “You're telling everyone the
secret but how will you succeed?
“Allah will certainly take care of us”, he replied.
Ansar's wife and son-in-law, Tofizar Rahman cooperates Ansar
in all his agricultural creativities

6. Cultivate Capsicum & success
• Agriculturist Md. Mahatab Uddin encouraged him at the
outset to cultivate capsicum in 1992.
• He started producing capsicum and sold it at Bogra markets
as a hawker. Consumers were very surprised with the
capsicum, this strange new vegetable in rural Bangladesh,
which was very new to them. A wholesaler from Jaypurhat
saw him selling capsicum and took those to Dhaka. From then
on, Ansar Ali never had to look back.

7. Others Items which ali cultivate
• Asparagus. Most of our
Bangladeshi famers
don't know about it.
But, Ansar Ali has been
producing it for quite a
long time and
popularizing it.
• He's also producing
baby corn, sweet corn,
lettuce, broccoli, cherry
tomato, beetroot, red
lettuce and thai basil.

8. Others role
• He's not only farming but has gained notable
commercial success.
• He's not only concentrating on his own profit
but inspiring other farmers to cultivate new
products.
• He is also helping them find a suitable market
without the help of intermediaries.

9. Comparison
In Past
• In the past, Ansar used to live a
very poor life like other farmers
do in the village. It was barely a
livable life. He still remembers
the tough days of his life. When
journalist asked him about his
past life he became emotional
about the early days and said, “I
had a small clay hut. Raindrops
used to fall inside our room from
the rooftop. My wife said she'll
help me build a more protected
house. I told her to be patient as
one day Allah will give us a better
house.
Now
• Later on, He built his own
house. And today, He has
got 13 bighas of land.” It's
amazing how self-belief
keeps our farmers going and
thus they have become so
resilient.

10. Profit
• Between February and March earning around Tk 70 thousand a year.
February to March is the peak time for asparagus.
• He cultivates 600 decimals of land in the winter season and 231 decimals
in the summer for supplying foreign vegetables to some multi-star hotels
in the capital. He said his annual profit has reached 2.7 lakh from selling
vegetables like pepper, capsicum and asparagus etc.
• With the profit out of selling vegetables, he has purchased 429 decimals of
land and is running his family as well as repaying his loan.

11. Target Market
• He usually sells them in Dhaka ,
Chittagong and also local
market.
• He also claimed, he supplies 20
varieties of foreign vegetables
to 8 customers in the capital.

12. Opportunity
• He has created job opportunities for local jobless men and women in his
vegetables fields.
• He now wishes to export vegetables if he would get government
assistance in this regard.
• The foreign vegetable cultivation can be profitable and may contribute a
lot to our economy if the authority pays heed to cultivators and their
problems.

13. Threats
• Lack of transportation facilities is one of the biggest problem to cultivate
foreign vegetable
• Railway is the most effective transportation though there is no direct
railway communication from Bogra to Dhaka and Cittagong. For that
reason vegetables cultivators have to spend huge money as truck fares.

14. Award
• For his relentless works , he has been awarded Best Agro
Entrepreneur of the year at the Citi Micro Entrepreneurship
Award 2010. On 17th of September, 2011, he received this
prestigious accolade from Finance Minister A. M. A. Muhith
and the Governor of Bangladesh Bank, Dr. Atiur Rahman.
• For his outstanding contribution in farming foreign and local
vegetables, he received Tk 3.5 lakh as prize money from
Bangladesh government in September this year.

16. Come In front to Media
• Shykh Seraj is an Agriculture Development and Media Activist.
Focus on anser ali .
• The Finalcial Express & The Daily Star make news on him .

17. Conclusion
• We have tried to tell people that farmers have
shown the way to development. Following the path
of those who have successfully improved their lives,
many others move towards development. When we
concentrate on the issue of food security, innovative
farmers like Ansar Ali catch our attention as a symbol
of hope. These farmers tell us of rapid developments
and also amazes us at what can be produced from
the golden soil of Bangladesh.