DigiGram Cattle Feed Grower
Grower
Steady growth and body development in growing cattle.
- Energy (TDN)
- 79%
- Protein (DCP)
- 14%
- Pack
- 40 kg sack
Nutrition on a dry-matter basis
A for-profit impact company · Bangladesh
Turning rural homes into thriving enterprises
Sustainable agriculture, eco-friendly value chains and the care economy — working for rural households in Bangladesh, and above all for women and people with disabilities.
Who we are
A for-profit company with a rural purpose
DigiGram Ventures is a for-profit impact company. We use sustainable agriculture, eco-friendly value chains and the care economy to raise incomes in rural Bangladesh — for underprivileged communities, and above all for women and people with disabilities. Our platforms connect farmers and rural micro-entrepreneurs with the investors, buyers and consumers who value what they produce, and bring them the market access, training and funding that turn a homestead into an enterprise.
Sustainable agriculture
Farming a household can keep running after the cycle ends: graded inputs, climate-smart advice, and production planned against a buyer rather than a hope.
Eco-friendly value chains
Shorter, cleaner chains from shed to buyer: feed made near the farms that use it, supply pooled by cooperatives, and less single-use plastic along the way.
The care economy
Rural women carry three times the unpaid care work of men. We build work that fits around it — from the homestead, with training on the phone — instead of asking anyone to choose.
Inclusion by design
Women are 70% of the people we work with and persons with disabilities 15%. Inclusion is a constraint on how every product is built, not a line added to a report.
The care economy
Rural women carry the work nobody pays for
Every hour spent caring for children and elders, cooking and fetching water is an hour not available for paid work — and it falls overwhelmingly on women. A livelihood that ignores this fails the people it is meant for. Ours are built around it: work from the homestead, training on the phone, and advice that is read aloud.
The gap
- more time rural women spend on unpaid care work than men
- 3×more time rural women spend on unpaid care work than menShathi Sheba Product Deck v0.1 — The problem
- of women farmers are cut off from the advice and extension services men receive
- 85%of women farmers are cut off from the advice and extension services men receiveShathi Sheba Product Deck v0.1 — The problem
Who we work with
- of the people we work with are women
- 70%of the people we work with are womenOverview Deck, July 2026 — Traction
- are persons with disabilities
- 15%are persons with disabilitiesOverview Deck, July 2026 — Traction
How we work
One rural entrepreneur, four things they are missing
DigiGram turns rural homes into micro-enterprises. Each pillar closes a gap that, left open, keeps a productive household poor.
Fund
Inclusive & accessible finance
Supply
Quality inputs delivered to the last mile
Grow
Expert training and market data
Sell
Seamless access to profitable markets
Shathi ShebaOne app for every part of a rural enterprise
Most smallholders are commercially invisible — no credit record, no published price, no buyer on paper. Shathi Sheba changes that: it turns scattered field information into one verified enterprise profile that a bank, a buyer and a project can all read, and puts finance, inputs, advice and a market in the same app.
FundFinance readiness, not just a loan referral
SupplyQuality inputs, delivered to the last mile
GrowAdvisory, climate alerts and training that counts
SellPublished rates and a named buyer
Left: every deduction and the net price per kilogram, shown before the farmer agrees to sell. Right: the same sale tracked through six verified steps to payment.
Shathi Apa · AI farm assistant
An adviser who speaks Bangla — and admits what she doesn't know
Shathi Apa answers questions on crops, livestock, poultry, fish, farm weather, markets and money — by voice, text or photo — and reads every answer aloud. Apa means elder sister in Bangla: someone you can ask without embarrassment.
Ask in your own words
Speak or type a question in everyday Bangla — no menus, no forms. English works too.
Hear every answer
Answers are read aloud in a Bangla voice, so reading is never the barrier to good advice.
Show, don't describe
Send a photo of a leaf, an animal or a feed label and ask about it directly.
A cattle check from one photo
An estimate of weight, age and breed with a short health note — before a field officer confirms the weight on a scale.
Never guesses a number
No price, weather, dose or date unless live data supplied it. If it could not fetch it, Apa says so plainly.
Shathi Apa
Answers in Bangla · reads aloud
Voice question · 0:06
Can I spread fertiliser on the paddy today?
Better to wait. Rain is likely this afternoon and would wash it off. Spread it tomorrow morning, once the field has drained.
Live weather · NatoreListen
How heavy is this one?
≈ 310 kg≈ 24 monthsCrossbred
An estimate from the photo — your field officer confirms the weight on a scale.
Shadhin Cattle Feed
Feed made in the village, for the village
Compound cattle feed made to Department of Livestock Services standards at our factory in Natore, with rural women's cooperatives — and delivered to the farms that use it through cooperatives and the Shathi Sheba app.
DigiGram Cattle Feed Finisher
Finisher
Finishing and market readiness in the final stage before sale.
- Energy (TDN)
- 86.1%
- Protein (DCP)
- 17.2%
- Pack
- 40 kg sack
Nutrition on a dry-matter basis
DigiGram Cattle Feed Dairy
Dairy
Health, strength and milk production in milking cows.
- Energy (TDN)
- 87%
- Protein (DCP)
- 21%
- Pack
- 40 kg sack
Nutrition on a dry-matter basis
DLS-compliant
Compound feed formulated to Department of Livestock Services standards
900 g/day
Average daily weight gain, validated in fattening cycles
100 t/month
Production capacity today, scalable to 500 tonnes a month
Women-made
Produced with rural women's cooperatives at our Natore factory
Who we work with
Everyone the model has to work for
It only works if every side gets something it cannot get anywhere else.
Farmers and rural entrepreneurs
Finance, quality inputs, training and a committed buyer — arranged before the cycle starts, not chased after it ends.
- A published price before every sale
- Feed and inputs delivered to the village
- A verified profile a bank can read
Women and people with disabilities
Livelihoods that fit around a day already full of care work — homestead livestock, kitchen gardens and crafts, run from home.
- 70% women participation
- 15% persons with disabilities
- Advice spoken aloud in Bangla
Buyers and consumers
Reliable quantity, consistent quality and a source that can be traced back to the household that produced it.
- Supply aggregated by cooperatives
- Producer, input and training records
- Standing agreements, not spot deals
Lenders and development partners
Lower acquisition and verification cost, visibility into thin-file borrowers, and monitored use of funds.
- Structured, verified applications
- Risk grade with reason codes
- Post-disbursement performance data
Our impact
Empowering 20,000 rural input partners with improved, sustainable livelihoods and market access by 2030.
Reaching 50,000 smallholder farmers — particularly women and persons with disabilities — living below or near the poverty line in rural Bangladesh.
Aligned with
- SDG 1 · No poverty
- SDG 2 · Zero hunger
- SDG 5 · Gender equality
- SDG 10 · Reduced inequalities
- SDG 12 · Responsible consumption
- SDG 13 · Climate action
Voices
Our partners, in their words
“I know what the animal is worth before the buyer arrives. That is the part that changed.”
Roji kept two cattle before joining, and sold them the way everyone in the village did — to whoever came to the gate, at whatever they offered that morning. The per-kilogram breakdown is what she points to now: the B2B rate, what comes off it for transport and vet care, and the figure that reaches her. She has stopped treating the sale as a negotiation she is going to lose.
Roji Akter
Shathi partner · Livestock · Rangunia, Chattogram
Partners & supporters
Building resilient rural livelihoods, together
Cooperatives mobilise and verify. Development partners fund and challenge us. Banks decide credit, and offtake buyers guarantee the sale. Our work is to make every one of those handoffs hold.
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Sajida FoundationSajida Foundation
Biniyog BriddhiBiniyog Briddhi
Amra Shadhin Women CooperativeAmra Shadhin Women Cooperative
CDDCDD
BRAC BankBRAC Bank
Walia Shimul Mohila Samabaya SamityWalia Shimul Mohila Samabaya Samity
Bengal MeatBengal Meat
Angus AgroAngus Agro
Khan Agro FarmKhan Agro Farm
News & insights
How the model actually works
Rural finance
Why a productive farmer still cannot borrow — and what fixes it
85% of rural borrowing in Bangladesh is informal. The barrier is rarely the farmer's economics. It is that nobody has written those economics down in a form a lender can act on.
14 Jul 2026 · 7 min read
Inputs
What 900g average daily gain actually means for a household
Feed specifications are written for buyers, not for the person doing the feeding. Here is the same number translated into weeks, taka and risk.
30 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
News
Breaking Barriers: Celebrating Leadership on International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Every year on December 3, the world acknowledges the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, emphasizing inclusivity and the rights of over 1.3 billion people globally. The 2024…
3 Dec 2024 · 1 min read
Reach the rural households the market has missed.
Lenders, buyers, development partners and cooperatives: if you want to work with women-led rural enterprises at scale, we would like to talk.