BRAC Social Enterprises – At a Glance

Agriculture & Food

BRAC Sericulture (1978) - Established to engage poor rural women in income generating activity through mulberry cultivation, silkworm and seed production, reeling and spinning of silk yarn, as well as weaving and marketing silk. BRAC played a pioneering role in the development of sericulture in the country. The enterprise is currently involved in introducing high yielding varieties of mulberry trees to areas in the north, which annually suffer from Monga or seasonal famine. Learn more ...

BRAC Cold Storage (1980) - Established with the assistance of UNDP, it operates a cold storage facility in Comilla district with a capacity of 4,000 metric tons for short-term storage. Facilitates the storage of potatoes for farmers in the mid-eastern region of the country as the area yields a good harvest of potatoes but lacks adequate storage facilities. It also offers farmers loans of up to 40% of the total value of the potatoes they have stored. Learn more ...

BRAC Tea Estates (2003) - Established as an income-generating venture where surplus income is put towards our development programmes. Learn more ... 

BRAC Salt (2004) - Established to fulfil the need to give people access to a cheap source of iodized salt in Bangladesh. Learn more ...

Health

BRAC Sanitary Napkin & Delivery Kit (1999) - Established to improve sanitary hygiene and mobility of women during menstruation for rural women by producing affordable, biodegradable sanitary napkins. Learn more ...

Livestock & Fisheries

BRAC Poultry (1996) - Grew out as one of the core interventions of BRAC employment and income generating activities with an aim to increase the availability of quality chicks at a competitive price and provide supports to the poultry extension program.This enterprise now produces day-old chicks and provides advisory and analytics support to all farmers through our diagnostics and feed analytical lab. Learn more ...

BRAC Fisheries (1998) - Supplies fish spawn, prawn post-larvae (PL), fish fry, and fingerling in response to the needs of commercial fish farms that have emerged due to a decline in wild stocks. It operates prawn, carp, and tilapia hatcheries, a marine fish breeding centre and a cage aquaculture unit. Learn more ...

BRAC Dairy (1998) - Established to provide a fair price for milk to members of our Village Organisations, who had invested their microloans in cows. BRAC Dairy creates a linkage to the market and protects farmers from price volatility from over-supply. Learn more ...

BRAC Feed Mills (1999) - Established to produce quality feed for poultry. It has since grown to include cattle and fish feed which farmers all over the country can purchase at an affordable price. Learn more ...

BRAC Artificial Insemination (2000) - Set-up to strengthen our dairy enterprise by providing farmers with access to semen of hybrid cattle breeds that yield more milk and meat. It provides training and employment to artificial inseminators who provide door-to-door service insemination services to local farmers. Learn more ...

BRAC Chicken (2001) - Established to meet the growing demand for dressed chicken in large metropolitan areas by purchasing chickens from our Poultry Rearing Farms and some contract farms. Learn more ... BRAC Poultry Rearing Farms (2002) BRAC Poultry Rearing Farms supports our poultry and chicken enterprises by rearing day-old chicks to full-grown chickens. Learn more ...

Green Enterprises / Renewable Energy

BRAC Solar (1998) - Launched under our Rural Enterprise Project (REP) to create and increase sustainable energy supply. It’s since paved the way to subsidising and installing solar panels in rural, remote and off-grid areas. Learn more ...

BRAC Nursery (1994) - Established to produce good quality seedlings and make it available throughout the country. We have established 15 large nurseries all over the country to produce and distribute quality seedlings as well as develop technology for different species. Learn more ...

BRAC Recycled Handmade Paper (2000) - Produces paper products, like paper sheets, exercise books or jewellery boxes, from recycled materials, like hay or cotton, gathered from our projects and branch offices. It generates employment for women and reduces the amount of waste produced. Learn more ...

Retail

Aarong (1978) -  One of the most unique heritage brands for retail clothing, linen, shoes, accessories, and home decor products. Set up as a fair trade organization, Aarong plays a crucial role in promoting local crafts. Learn more ...

Printers & Printing Pack

BRAC Printers (1977) - A full-service desktop printing facility, established to support our Education programme. A major volume of its production is for BRAC’s education programme such as textbooks, story books and educational posters and office stationeries such as diaries, letterheads, envelopes. Learn more ...

BRAC Printing Pack (2005) - Produces packaging materials for internal and external market needs, supporting our enterprises such as Aarong, BRAC Chicken, and seeds and rice packaging whilst providing employment to over 100 people. Surplus income is put towards our development programmes. Learn more ...