Institute for Development of Entrepreneurs in Agribusiness (IDEA) is the ‘call of the day!’ ASF’s belief in IDEA, and its initial support, has provided ECI the impetuous to give wings to the concept. While ECI may have set up IDEA anyway, to have the support, guidance and mentoring of an institution of ASF’s stature has provided IDEA the required market credibility and has facilitated its dynamic growth

ASF came up with the idea and also extended its financial support to the Association for setting up a Business Resource Centre at Karachi. This proved to be quite beneficial for us since now the members have a common platform to sit and discuss various issues. The centre arranges seminars workshops and disseminates useful information among members. On behalf of all the members of my Association, I thank ASF for its valuable support.

Being a practicing corporate lawyer and Barrister, dairy business was entirely a different game for me but the training program on Dairy Farming supported by Agribusiness Support Fund (ASF) motivated me so much that I immediately started my own dairy farm business. It indeed is a wonderful feeling to become a trained entrepreneur and owner of such a profitable business. Thank you ASF for promoting wonderful ideas.

Previously, we used to sell milk at low prices, hardly earning any profit for ourselves. After ASF’s support we set up a cream separation unit and now we are selling dairy value added products at premium prices. Our FEG now even buys milk from non-members and processes it. We are so happy with this new business activity and this could not have been possible without the support of ASF.

We at Shah Agricultural Products understood the value of the information system but were affected by the lack of investment in technology for the Agriculture sector. ASF in this regard was a great help and has transformed our accounting, information keeping and human resources. Taking this opportunity, I would like to thank ASF team for its support and guidance through the process.

Being a Date grower, I am thankful to ASF team for providing support in every
aspect of Dates production, promotion and marketing. Due to ASF support and
continuous efforts we are now working as a group for the promotion and development of our businesses that we never
thought of in a village like Dhakki. On behalf of Dhakki Dates Cooperative
Society, I once again thank ASF for its support.

Asim Agriculture Farm appreciates the role of ASF in providing substantial assistance in the form of matching grant in getting GlobalGap certification and Agriculture software program. I hope that ASF will continue to assist the farming community in its efforts to meet the Global challenges of agriculture.

Imdad Ali Nizamani
Managing Director
Asim AgricultureFarm, Tando Allahyar, Sindh

Major Tariq Khan
Progressive Mango Growers, Lutfabad, Multan

We started tunnel-farming with ASF support. The yield we got from 1 acre was equal to what we used to get from 8 acres under traditional farming. Next year, we will increase the area under tunnel-farming to 14 acres which will fetch us even better returns as we are now well trained with ASF’s support. This is the best thing that ASF could do for small-scale farmers.

Muhammad Iqbal Saifi
Farmer/President FEG, Sharaqpur, Punjab