Need for assisting ultra-poor to expand livestock sector emphasised

Our Correspondent | Published: May 29, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

RANGPUR, May 28: Speakers at a view exchange meeting put emphasis on giving special importance on assisting the ultra-poor people for expanding livestock sector in order to enhance their socio-economic uplift in rural areas of the region.
BRAC organised the daylong meeting under its Challenging the Frontiers Poverty Reduction- Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR-TUP) Project at divisional livestock office auditorium in Rangpur city on Tuesday.
Presided over by district livestock officer, Rangpur Dr. Dulal Chandra Bhadra deputy director of divisional livestock department, Dr. Swapon Kumar Pal addressed the meeting as the chief guest while Assistant Director of Divisional livestock department Dr. Mahabubul Alam, Assistant Director of Govt. Poultry farm, Rangpur Dr. Jetendranath Barmon, District Artificial Insemination Officer, Rangpur Dr. Sheikh Azizur Rahman also addressed as special guests.
Regional Manager of BRAC Md. Solaiman Ali described the aims and objectives of the project arranged for reaching the services being provided under the CFPR-TUP Project to the ultra poor people in the rural areas giving special priority and the success achieved so far while Senior Manager, Advocacy for Social Change, BRAC Md. Ali Hossain presented the keynote paper.
The speakers said a good number of the extreme poor people including distressed women in the rural areas of the region have already attained self-reliance through rearing of cattle and poultry birds and thus they found the way to get rid of the curse of poverty in recent years.
CLP project
A BSS report adds: The expanding animal husbandry sector has brought about a silent revolution to accelerate socioeconomic uplift of the poor living in remote char areas in recent years, speakers said here Tuesday.
They were addressing inaugural ceremony of the daylong 'Livestocks Technology Fair 2014' organised at remote char village of Paschim Echlee on the Teesta riverbed under Laksmitari union of Gangachara upazila in the district.
The Paschim Echlee Bagerhat Char Business Centre (CBC) organised the fair under the Char Market Development Initiative (CMDI) Project under assistances of International Development Enterprises (iDE)-Bangladesh.
The Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) has been implementing the project with the assistances of UK-based Department for International Development (DFID), Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and Government of Bangladesh.