Dairy project undertaken to enhance milk, meat production
Saturday, 5 January 2008
RAJSHAHI, Jan 4 (BSS): The 6 Cavalry Battalion of Bangladesh Army has taken up 'Four Cow Rearing Projects' with special emphasis on motivating mid-level families towards becoming self-reliant.
Talking to the news agency here Friday, Second-in-Command of the battalion Maj Kawser Ahmed said the main objective of these projects is to offer a scope to such families, encouraging them to become self-reliant for a decent living.
The major outcomes of such projects will be milk, meat, organic fertiliser, bio-gas plants and self-employment. Besides, he said, each farm will rear four milching cows to establish small dairy farms.
Concerned government organisations, working at the field level, are being motivated to assist target families to development confidence among themselves. They will eventually become small-scale business community in their respective areas.
To make this efforts a success, a series of views-exchange sessions were held with the lending agencies, local administration and NGOs for reducing the gap between these organisations and the targeted families willing to take up this venture.
Kawser said the upazila veterinary officers will provide required service to the targeted families against any disease that may attack the milching cows.
"If such small families are grouped into clusters in view of their production, location and marketing concepts, it will be possible to establish a large chain of upazila level milk producing families," he said.
Major Kawser observed that without active and dynamic approach of the lending organisations, especially banks and other monitoring and supervising authorities, this kind of project could not be sustainable.
Talking to the news agency here Friday, Second-in-Command of the battalion Maj Kawser Ahmed said the main objective of these projects is to offer a scope to such families, encouraging them to become self-reliant for a decent living.
The major outcomes of such projects will be milk, meat, organic fertiliser, bio-gas plants and self-employment. Besides, he said, each farm will rear four milching cows to establish small dairy farms.
Concerned government organisations, working at the field level, are being motivated to assist target families to development confidence among themselves. They will eventually become small-scale business community in their respective areas.
To make this efforts a success, a series of views-exchange sessions were held with the lending agencies, local administration and NGOs for reducing the gap between these organisations and the targeted families willing to take up this venture.
Kawser said the upazila veterinary officers will provide required service to the targeted families against any disease that may attack the milching cows.
"If such small families are grouped into clusters in view of their production, location and marketing concepts, it will be possible to establish a large chain of upazila level milk producing families," he said.
Major Kawser observed that without active and dynamic approach of the lending organisations, especially banks and other monitoring and supervising authorities, this kind of project could not be sustainable.