Suppliers

The business body at Maldah Patty in Dinajpur, centre of the rice, maize and Hili land-port import trade.

The business body of Naogaon, a major paddy and rice mokam; the office sits at Hat Naogaon.

The business body at Lalbazar, Natore — local contact for the paddy, mango and molasses trades.

The business body on Station Road, Nilphamari — local contact for the potato, maize and Syedpur trades.

The head office for livestock: the rules for vaccination, veterinary care and artificial insemination, and the way to every district livestock office.

The fish farm owners' association; its Motijheel office is where to ask about fry, feed and markets.

The business body of Bogura, the trading centre of the north; membership, trade certificates and local wholesale contacts.

The handicraft makers and exporters association: showcases, buyer contacts and help with export paperwork.

Association of handicraft manufacturers, suppliers and exporters; its membership is the way to reach craft raw material suppliers and buyers.

The association of the country's automatic rice mill owners — the route to finding a mill to sell paddy to or buy rice from.

The association of agro-based product makers and merchants; useful for finding buyers and selling produce.

The national association of cold storage owners; the place to ask where potato, onion or fruit can be stored and at what rate.

The head office for small and cottage industry: unit registration, industrial-estate plots, loan recommendations and training.

The Tea Board's Dhaka office handles registration and licences for small tea growers and tea traders.

The handloom board: weaver and loom registration, help getting yarn, credit and weaving training.

The potato exporters' association — where to ask about the rules and the buyers for sending potato abroad.

The association of the dal mills of Dalpotti in Narayanganj — where to ask about milling pulses or buying dal wholesale.

Based at Karwan Bazar; the association of fish exporters and importers and a way into the wholesale fish trade.

Based at Agrabad in Chattogram; the association of the marine fishing and fish processing industry.

The importers' association of Badamtoli, Dhaka's wholesale fruit market — the starting point for buying fruit wholesale.

Runs the government fish landing centres and wholesale fish markets, with trading, ice and processing facilities for fish businesses.

The rice exporters' association — the starting point for anyone wanting to send aromatic rice abroad.

The traders' association of Babubazar, the wholesale rice market of old Dhaka — the way in to buying rice wholesale.

The rice mill owners' association; useful for tracing mills and prices in the paddy and rice trade.