Expatriate agri-entrepreneur

From a 500-riyal farmhand to a two-kilometre vegetable farm in the Saudi desert: Manikganj's Kamal Uddin employs fifty Bangladeshis

Kamal Uddin went to Riyadh as an agricultural labourer in 1998; today his rented farm at Hafirat Nisa grows brinjal, chilli, bitter gourd, tomato and gourds, and his workers say board, lodging and wages on time let them send remittances home.