context as explained in 2009 brac annual report
Another example of a backward-linking social enterprise
is the BRAC vegetable seed initiative. At present, half a
million of our borrowers grow vegetables as their principal
income generation activity. These women needed seeds
to improve their production so we established a seed
multiplication enterprise. We not only provide quality
vegetable seeds but produce hybrid rice and maize
seeds for poor farmers. Today we are the largest
producer of seeds in Bangladesh.
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latest news may 2021
of all borlaug's grreen revolutions that applied to rice across asia saved hundreds of millions from starvation- rice local production first multiplied in japan taiwan korea of 1950s
-here is abed 2008 complimenting rockeller for supporting birth of irri collab philipines 1960
however when brac was born in 1972 chinese villages who abed sought knowledge from on barefoot medics were also collaborating in miracle rice - this report from china 2021 shows the urgemcy of rice efficiency replication in 1970s -our estimates show over 30 million chinese died of starvation in 1960s-
the organisation system way china replicates any miracle solution endding villagre poverty is different from abed's social business microfranchising but anyone who fails to understad both urgency of need on continent asia 1970s to 1995 and why community solutions were often swapped is at best uniformed
Tens of thousands of mourners from across China flocked to the funeral of
in the central city of Changsha on Monday in a spontaneous outpouring of public grief for the agronomist and national hero known as “the father of hybrid rice”.Millions more paid their last respects at a state-sanctioned virtual funeral held online for Yuan after he
on Saturday, a beloved figure credited with saving tens of millions from hunger in China as well as developing countries across Asia and Africa.The scale of mass mourning was reminiscent of the funerals of only a few Chinese leaders in modern history, and the crowds of grieving younger people underscored the deep regard for him across generations.