Project Cattle Trading 01

The Shathi Cattle Trading Project is designed to close the gap between smallholder cattle farmers and the B2B buyers who ultimately pay for their livestock. Across Lalpur and Baraigram upazila in Natore, farmers currently sell at the farmgate or local haat on a per-head guess rather than measured weight, losing income to middlemen, price uncertainty, and the cost of transport to distant markets. This project addresses those gaps by giving farmers a guaranteed buyer at a scale-measured, liveweight price under the Shathi ecosystem.

DigiGram Ventures has partnered with Bengal Meat Processors to purchase cattle on a liveweight scale rate, weighed and priced per kilogram, with farmers paid in full and in cash the moment their animals are loaded. DigiGram manages everything the farmer cannot do alone - aggregation, quarantine, quality control, and logistics to the processor - while every animal, farmer, and payment is recorded on the Shathi Sheba app, giving households their first real price history.

Because farmers are paid on day one but the processor only settles around day fourteen after QC and accounts verification, this raise (Tk 30,00,000 across 60 units of Tk 50,000, 4-month tenor, 6 - 6.5% profit share) funds that working-capital gap. Margins are locked in through the contracted scale-based pricing rather than exposed to market swings, and a cash buffer plus veterinary checks cover settlement delay and mortality risk. Each funded cycle extends forward market access and price transparency to more of the 2,000+ cattle rearers across the two upazilas.