In 2015, Habib Ullah Bahar, a graduate of BUET, founded a start-up called Field Buzz with his co-founder Alexis Rawlinson. They started with the little savings they had from their previous venture and did not take any salary for the first 2.5 years.
Shayne Rose Bulos
Friday 15 January, 2021
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In September 2020, with support from the Australian Government (DFAT), the GSMA launched a joint Call To Action (JCTA) aimed at agribusinesses, agritech companies and financial services providers (FSPs) in Papua New Guinea to identify a consortium that will work towards improving access to credit for smallholder farmers.
We are excited to announce that, following a competitive selection process, local consortium consisting of agribusiness Kamapim, Ltd., agritech Field Buzz and FSP MiBank was selected to pursue the objectives of the GSMA AgriTech programme activities in Papua New Guinea. The consortium will receive targeted in-kind support from the GSMA to