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Developing Competitive Advantage of the SMEs
In Bangladesh, agribusiness is one of the major sectors
contributing to over 18% to GDP. SEDF has been supporting
agribusiness development in Bangladesh since 2002 as one of its
focused sectors. It has already developed a country map
identifying the overall gaps constraining the growth of
agribusiness sector. Various studies and discussions with the
key stakeholders have shown that Bangladesh agribusiness is
suffering from many problems such as, insufficient information
about markets, inadequate technical knowledge, poor local
capacity to provide the services necessary to improve SME
efficiency and growth, double taxation/VAT system for raw
materials and finished products etc.
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The study was
undertaken under two broad head – Agri-Enterprise and Light
Engineering in partnership with The South Asia Enterprise
Development Facility (SEDF), a multi-donor funded, IFC
managed initiative with a broad goal of developing viable
small and medium sized, private sector enterprises in
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and North East India (BBNNI).
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Developing
Competitive Advantage |
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• Bicycle Spare Parts
Producers And Exporters |
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• Commercial Poultry (egg and
meat) Producers And
Processors |
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• Vegetable Producer,
Processor And Exporters |
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• Agricultural Machinery and
Tools Producers |
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The overarching objective of the project is to contribute to
the reduction of by incorporating the strategies to increase
competitiveness, performance, and growth of the SME sector,
which is expected to contribute to growth and improvement in
economic and social conditions. The study was intended to
addresses the issue of service provisions for the above
mentioned selected products/ subsectors by identifying and
working with service providers who are currently offering or
have potential to offer commercial services to SMEs. The key
intervention would be to assist service providers in
developing their products and services by providing
technical assistance in their product and market
development.
ChangeMaker has conducted a through study using the tools and
methodologies of “Subsector Analysis and Market Assessment”
together with complete “Supply and Value Chain Analysis”
for identification competitive advantage and value addition of
the market actors.
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