Acute dairy, poultry feed crisis in B'baria
Monday, 20 August 2007
Our Correspondent
BRAHMANBARIA, Aug 19: Owners of both dairy and poultry farms here are in trouble due to acute feed crisis, sources said.
Local farm owners said that although dairy and poultry farms have been flourishing rapidly in the district, but no dairy and poultry feed factory has so far been established to meet the requirement.
Many unemployed youths, taking loans from the Department of Youth Development(DYD) and local NGO's established small dairy and poultry farms here to make them self reliant, they added.
According to District Livestock Department(DLD), there are some 1006 listed milk producing dairy farms, eight goat farms, four lamb farms, 328 broiler chicken farms, 15 layer chicken farms and 90 duck farms. District Dairy and Poultry Farm Owners Association said the actual number wuld be much higher than the Government statistics.
The Association, though unable to give the actual figure, said that the district had 230 layer chicken farms, 150 duck farms and 500 broiler chicken farms.
But, the small farm owners of this potential sector were in trouble because of high prices and scarcity of dairy and poultry feed.
They apprehended that they might be forced to shut down their farms in the near future if prices of dairy and poultry feed continued to rise. They were completely dependent on the dairy and poultry feed coming from the other districts because there were no such factory in the district.
BRAHMANBARIA, Aug 19: Owners of both dairy and poultry farms here are in trouble due to acute feed crisis, sources said.
Local farm owners said that although dairy and poultry farms have been flourishing rapidly in the district, but no dairy and poultry feed factory has so far been established to meet the requirement.
Many unemployed youths, taking loans from the Department of Youth Development(DYD) and local NGO's established small dairy and poultry farms here to make them self reliant, they added.
According to District Livestock Department(DLD), there are some 1006 listed milk producing dairy farms, eight goat farms, four lamb farms, 328 broiler chicken farms, 15 layer chicken farms and 90 duck farms. District Dairy and Poultry Farm Owners Association said the actual number wuld be much higher than the Government statistics.
The Association, though unable to give the actual figure, said that the district had 230 layer chicken farms, 150 duck farms and 500 broiler chicken farms.
But, the small farm owners of this potential sector were in trouble because of high prices and scarcity of dairy and poultry feed.
They apprehended that they might be forced to shut down their farms in the near future if prices of dairy and poultry feed continued to rise. They were completely dependent on the dairy and poultry feed coming from the other districts because there were no such factory in the district.