Kazi Farms Group

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Kazi Farms Group
Type Private
Industry Poultry
Founded1996
FounderKazi Zahedul Hasan
HeadquartersHouse No. 35, Road 02, Dhanmondi, Dhaka 1205.
OwnerKazi Zahedul Hasan
Number of employees
10,000
Website www.kazifarms.com

Kazi Farms Group' is one of the biggest businesses of the poultry industry in Bangladesh. [1] Kazi Zahedul Hasan, the managing director, was awarded Business Person Of The Year for 2004 in Bangladesh. [2] It runs most of its office computers on free and open-source software such as Linux. [3]

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Controversy

On 22 September 2022, the Bangladesh Competition Commission filed a case against Kazi Farms for destabilizing the stable market by increasing the price of eggs at a higher rate than normal. Hearing the case four days later, the Bangladesh Competition Commission criticized the company for following a strange policy for fixing the price of eggs. In this auction system, the company finalizes a price after the dealers and distributors bid on the base price. [9] Kazi Farms replied that egg prices had indeed spiked abnormally for a week, but the reason was a shortage of trucks following a national increase in the price of diesel. [10] Singaporean economist Indranil Chakraborty examined Kazi Farms' auctions and found them to be a fair and reasonable means of selling agricultural commodities such as eggs, which typically fluctuate daily due to supply and demand. [11]

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