The Japan News
8:17 pm, February 26, 2019
Courtesy of Euglena Co.
Workers harvest mung beans in Bangladesh, cultivating the vegetable with the help of Euglena GG.
The Yomiuri Shimbun
A Tokyo-based biotechnology venture, Euglena Co., has formed a business tie-up with the World Food Program to introduce a cultivation technique for mung beans to Bangladesh and deliver the beans to Rohingya Muslims who have fled to the country.
Under the project, the manufacturer of nutritional supplements containing a type of algae called euglena provides training programs for growing mung beans, a popular food in the country, to small-scale farmers in Bangladesh. The WFP then purchases the mung beans produced by the farmers and provides them to the Rohingya.
“As a venture, we want to address social issues by providing food aid to Rohingya refugees and helping farmers in Bangladesh,” Euglena President Mitsuru Izumo said.
A signing ceremony for the business tie-up was held on Monday in Dhaka with Izumo, WFP local representative Alpha Bah and Yuko Satake, co-CEO of Euglena GG Ltd., a joint venture between Euglena Co. and the Grameen Krishi Foundation, which is led by Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus.
Euglena GG, based in Dhaka, launched a project to introduce the cultivation technique in 2014, aiming to improve the income and living standards of impoverished farming areas in Bangladesh.
The business tie-up, a two-year project that started in January this year, plans to cover about 2,000 farmers in Bangladesh and provide food to 20,000 Rohingya Muslims.
The biotechnology venture succeeded in the outdoor mass cultivation of euglena for the first time in the world in 2005.
The company markets functional foods and cosmetics containing euglena and part of its sales is used for a program to provide euglena cookies to children in Bangladesh. The company started the program in 2014 and provided the cookies an average of five days a week to about 10,000 children in 58 schools as of January this year.Speech
Under the project, the manufacturer of nutritional supplements containing a type of algae called euglena provides training programs for growing mung beans, a popular food in the country, to small-scale farmers in Bangladesh. The WFP then purchases the mung beans produced by the farmers and provides them to the Rohingya.
“As a venture, we want to address social issues by providing food aid to Rohingya refugees and helping farmers in Bangladesh,” Euglena President Mitsuru Izumo said.
A signing ceremony for the business tie-up was held on Monday in Dhaka with Izumo, WFP local representative Alpha Bah and Yuko Satake, co-CEO of Euglena GG Ltd., a joint venture between Euglena Co. and the Grameen Krishi Foundation, which is led by Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus.
Euglena GG, based in Dhaka, launched a project to introduce the cultivation technique in 2014, aiming to improve the income and living standards of impoverished farming areas in Bangladesh.
The business tie-up, a two-year project that started in January this year, plans to cover about 2,000 farmers in Bangladesh and provide food to 20,000 Rohingya Muslims.
The biotechnology venture succeeded in the outdoor mass cultivation of euglena for the first time in the world in 2005.
The company markets functional foods and cosmetics containing euglena and part of its sales is used for a program to provide euglena cookies to children in Bangladesh. The company started the program in 2014 and provided the cookies an average of five days a week to about 10,000 children in 58 schools as of January this year.Speech
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