Konika Seed Company

Konika Seed Company

Konika Seed House emerged as a small-scale packaging and supply vegetable seed & rice seed to local markets in 1995. Konika Seed House obtained registration as Konika Seed Company (Pvt.) Limited (KSCPL) from Joint Stock Company with the help of Bangladesh German Seed Development Project. The company got license of seed production and marketing from the Ministry of Agriculture of GoB in 2001. KSCPL started commercial production of seed since 2001. The company has now direct business linkages with 1500 local farmers and 45 seed retailers in 23 districts through the service of supplying seeds. Konika seed company collaborated with CPU CDP Catalyst, Bangladesh German Seed Development Project, USAID-Price Project. It is currently focused in the southern districts of the country with USAID-AVC Project. AMPS developed a project proposal for KSCPL. The proposal highlighted the need for high value premium variety rice seed in the remotest areas in the FtF zones, which are more prone to climatic effects. It was a joint venture proposal where the Rice and Diversified Crop (RDC) Market Accelerator Program of USAID was asked to share a portion of the project cost. The project forecasted that 38,250 farmers will purchase and have benefit of increased rice production and higher price from customer. The project intended to bring systemic market changes in the RDC zone in the FtF area.       Konika Vermi Compost Organic Fertilizer Farm (KVCOFF) is a sister concern of KSCPL. KVCOFF is promising company in the Southern region of Bangladesh located at Loknathpur, Darsana, Chuadanga. The company is in operation since 2012. The current yearly production capacity of the company is 360 MT.  Depletion of organic matter (OM) content is considered as one of the main reasons for the low crop productivity of our soils, including the FtF zones. Major causes of the low OM are increasing cropping intensity, un-balanced use of chemical fertilizer and low use of organic manure. KVCOFF expected an increased demand of organic compost in general and vermi-compost specifically, in the high-intensity vegetable and flower producing farm areas of the southern districts and thought that a fruitful collaboration with an development agency might help the company increase its yearly production volume. AMPS wrote a project proposal for KVCOFF suggesting a collaboration with the Market Accelerator Program run with USAID funds to increase support increase the yearly production volume of the company by 675 MT. At the moment KVCOFF supplies vermi-compost to about 3,500 farmers. With successful collaboration the company will be strengthened to supply to a large customer base of approximately 5,700 farmers.

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