Women become income-generators through bull fattening in Rajshahi

RAJSHAHI, May 9 (BSS): More than 11,000 rural people most of them women in the region have now become income-generators through bull fattening and other dairy farming activities contributing a lot to improving their living and livelihood condition.
Various government and non-government organisations concerned have already come forward towards providing necessary inputs and other services to them.
"I, myself cut straw and grass, prepare other fodders and wash both the bulls and barn regularly," said Chandera, 42, while talking to the news agency in her semi-pucca house in Gangdhopapara village under Puthiya Upazila of the district.
Her neighbour Abu Taleb, 45, having four bulls, narrated his success story of the business. At least 36 other families of the locality are fattening bulls to catch the lucrative sacrificial market. "We see an income-generation atmosphere in the village over the bull fattening," Taleb says.
Already, they have replaced their traditional domestic cattle-rearing process with modern and commercial one.
They become habituated to various money transactions including borrowing loans from different banks for purchasing bulls alongside repaying those in due time.
With intervention of a project, the producers formed Medium and Small Enterprise (MSE) in the Gangdhopapara village for making their bull fattening trade profitable and sustainable.
They were also seen disseminating their good learning and practices to their neighbours to elevate their socio-economic condition and more women empowerment through boosting the sector that can meet the country's protein deficiency.