Countree Empowers Female Farmers in Susua Char to Grow and Process Quinoa in Bangladesh

Fatema Akter is a Female farmer in the Susua Char area. She lost her husband in heavy flood three years ago and provides for her two children. Fatema, used to live from hand to mouth. Countree hired Fatema, and ten more female farmers like her , taught them cultivating and the processing of Quinoa. With the support of the farmers like her, in the first year Countree has grown more than eighteen hundred kilo grams of grains. These grains are directly coming from the crop fields to the plates of the urban consumers of Bangladesh.