Rangpur Correspondent :
Speakers at a view exchange meeting put emphasis on giving special importance to assist 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 Kaunia Upazala Livestock office on Tuesday.
Presided over by Upazila Livestock officer Dr. Shin Are Haque, District Livestock Officer Rangpur Dr Mozammel Haq addressed the meeting as the Chief Guest while Assistant Director of Divisional Livestock Department Dr Mutria Bagume, Assistant Director of Govt. Poultry Farm, Rangpur Dr. Jetendranath Barmon, District Artificial Insemination Officer, Rangpur Dr. Sheikh Azizur Rahman also addressed the meeting 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.
