Nagad offers smart payment options at cattle markets

Business Desk :
Nagad, a leading mobile financial service provider in Bangladesh, has come up with a smart payment option at cattle haat, offering its customers safe and convenient buying and selling of sacrificial animals.
As part of its efforts to help Bangladesh’s transition to a “Smart Nation,” such a payment option has been introduced at smart cattle markets, reads a press release.
Customers will get attractive gifts alongside maximum security while making payments using Nagad.
Under the initiative taken by the Bangladesh Bank, Dhaka North City Corporation and Chittagong City Corporation, ten smart cattle markets have been set up in Dhaka and Chittagong cities.
The Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock and the Bangladesh Dairy Farmers’ Association is providing all necessary support to the management of smart haats.
Nagad has installed booths and employed skilled staffers in those cattle markets to provide various services to buyers and sellers.
Nagad has taken the lead in every initiative of the government to promote cashless transactions.
As part of that, it has been entrusted with the responsibility to ensure cashless transactions at two smart haats in the capital – Gabtali and Basila cattle markets.
People who buy or sell animals for certain amounts through Nagad at both cattle markets will get attractive t-shirts, caps, mugs, key rings and pens.
Nagad already conducted awareness-raising activities among farmers in different parts of the country prior to setting up smart cattle haats.
Besides, many cattle farmers with trade licences have been given Uddokta accounts. As a result, they can return home safely after selling cattle as they do not have to carry cash.
Besides, after receiving the money from the sales of animals in Nagad accounts, sellers can withdraw cash at the lowest costs from Nagad booths installed at the smart cattle markets.
At the same time, interested buyers can also make cash-in from the booths as required.
In addition, cattle farmers can cash in the money they receive through the sales of animals in cash transactions, or they can secure it by sending the money to the accounts of their family members at home.