The great leader having versatile personality, philanthropist,friends of the poor & distressed people Sir Fazle Hasan Abed founded BRAC (the no. 1 of the world) during the year 1972 which was initially operating the rehabilitation program of the distressed & helpless people who returned to Bangladesh from India after the liberation war of Bangladesh. Gradually he involved himself in the activities of different socioeconomic development sectors of Bangladesh and other foreign countries like, education, agriculture, health nutrition and population program, microfinance,social enterprises, activities related to empowerment of the women and eradication of the hunger & poverty to contribute more to the society & serve for the humanity. He also founded BRAC university & BRAC bank to improve the standard of education and banking sector of Bangladesh as well.Through his greater vision and farsightedness he also founded an agricultural research & development centre at Gazipur for the development of agriculture sector of Bangladesh and improvement of the livelihood standard of the marginal and poor farmers. For his greater contribution to the society he received a good no. of domestic & international prizes and honors (Knight, World food prize etc.) which made him a great international figure as well. In this article some sweet memories of his presence in BRAC Agriculture Research & Development (BARDC) has been presented briefly. #To enjoy my you tube video on 'BRAC Town' please follow the link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70QrL3xz88I

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