Dupchanchia (Bogra) Correspondent :
Massive duck farming has brought a new dimension of financial progress among hundreds of poor and marginal families living in different villages of Bogra district as they have been becoming economically solvent by rearing birds round the year. Especially, the poor and disable men have been financially self-reliant day by day across the district borrowing micro loan from the different NGOs from last few years while the government of our country is trying to eradicate the course of poverty from the society providing all sorts of animal husbandries imputes.
District live stock office source said that over 300 families of different remote villages surrounding the area of the district are engaged in rearing ducks by making farms at their houses. Each of the duck firm holds 20 to 100 ducks aiming a good profit. Housewives and aboriginal people of the villages are rearing ducks as an alternative source of income, source added.
While visiting different duck farm of the district the correspondent found in the early morning the housewives from aboriginal families, take their flock of ducks to the water body near their houses and after days work they revisit the small ponds to bring their ducks back home. Hearing the voices of their owners, the ducks assembled together and follow them to their houses and their only profession was to cultivate land and to catch fish during the rainy season in the past.
A duck farmer Golezan Begum at Marai village under sadar upazila said, she took loan tk. 12000 from NGO and started duck farming at her house as well as the Department of Livestock also came forward to assist her by supplying improved, hybrid variety of ducklings. Those hybrid ducks got immense popularity among Khal people for their speedy growth and lying of large number of eggs within eight months so, the number of duck farmers are increasing day by day, she added.
When contracted district livestock officer Dr. A M Shafiuzzaman said, “The duck farm owners then keep their ducks inside the pen because paddy and other crops are grown during the dry season at the beds of the beel and many duck farm owners are forced to sell ducks during the dry season because of scarcity and high cost of food.
Massive duck farming has brought a new dimension of financial progress among hundreds of poor and marginal families living in different villages of Bogra district as they have been becoming economically solvent by rearing birds round the year. Especially, the poor and disable men have been financially self-reliant day by day across the district borrowing micro loan from the different NGOs from last few years while the government of our country is trying to eradicate the course of poverty from the society providing all sorts of animal husbandries imputes.
District live stock office source said that over 300 families of different remote villages surrounding the area of the district are engaged in rearing ducks by making farms at their houses. Each of the duck firm holds 20 to 100 ducks aiming a good profit. Housewives and aboriginal people of the villages are rearing ducks as an alternative source of income, source added.
While visiting different duck farm of the district the correspondent found in the early morning the housewives from aboriginal families, take their flock of ducks to the water body near their houses and after days work they revisit the small ponds to bring their ducks back home. Hearing the voices of their owners, the ducks assembled together and follow them to their houses and their only profession was to cultivate land and to catch fish during the rainy season in the past.
A duck farmer Golezan Begum at Marai village under sadar upazila said, she took loan tk. 12000 from NGO and started duck farming at her house as well as the Department of Livestock also came forward to assist her by supplying improved, hybrid variety of ducklings. Those hybrid ducks got immense popularity among Khal people for their speedy growth and lying of large number of eggs within eight months so, the number of duck farmers are increasing day by day, she added.
When contracted district livestock officer Dr. A M Shafiuzzaman said, “The duck farm owners then keep their ducks inside the pen because paddy and other crops are grown during the dry season at the beds of the beel and many duck farm owners are forced to sell ducks during the dry season because of scarcity and high cost of food.
