Cultivating Coffee Business in Bangladesh
Ms. Zing Ping Mawi Bawm is from Happy Hill Para in the Bandarban district located in the Chattogram Hill Tracts. For most of her life, Zing Ping worked as a jhum farmer -- an indigenous agriculture practice where farmers produce multiple crops on small plots of land throughout the mountainous terrain -- and earned a meager annual income. With USAID support, she learned how to cultivate a new cash crop: coffee. She has improved her craft and now sells her beans to North End Coffee Roasters, which is Bangladesh's largest home-grown coffee business.
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