Milk production declines in Faridpur
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Our Correspondent
FARIDPUR, Sept 29: Milk production has sharply fallen in the district as the number of milch cows has rapidly decreased in all the eight upazilas.
The poor cultivators of the district till their lands with the help of milch cows as they are unable to afford bullocks due to great hardship. Besides, milk cows are slaughtered off to meet the requirement of beef.
Nowadays, fresh grass needed for those cows is not adequately available.
Grass does not grow as before because of the pattern of crops grown with the introduction of mechanised system of cultivation.
A major proportion of cultivable land has been brought under vegetable and seed bed for aman cultivation in which khesari, maskalai, masur, motor, dhancha and other were grown previously.
Besides, cattle diseases are a common feature in Faridpur district. During the past several prolonged catastrophic flood and other natural calamities thousands of milch cows had died being attacked with various diseases.
The cultivators alleged that the concerned authorities did not take any preventive and curative measures in this respect.
FARIDPUR, Sept 29: Milk production has sharply fallen in the district as the number of milch cows has rapidly decreased in all the eight upazilas.
The poor cultivators of the district till their lands with the help of milch cows as they are unable to afford bullocks due to great hardship. Besides, milk cows are slaughtered off to meet the requirement of beef.
Nowadays, fresh grass needed for those cows is not adequately available.
Grass does not grow as before because of the pattern of crops grown with the introduction of mechanised system of cultivation.
A major proportion of cultivable land has been brought under vegetable and seed bed for aman cultivation in which khesari, maskalai, masur, motor, dhancha and other were grown previously.
Besides, cattle diseases are a common feature in Faridpur district. During the past several prolonged catastrophic flood and other natural calamities thousands of milch cows had died being attacked with various diseases.
The cultivators alleged that the concerned authorities did not take any preventive and curative measures in this respect.