City Desk :
Speakers at a post-rally discussion unequivocally called for boosting milk production and its consumption to eradicate the malnutrition problems particularly among the poor and distressed children.
Highlighting the enormous aspects of milk to the nation-building process they mentioned that milk consumption is very important for both physical and mental development of the children. So, utmost emphasis should be given on ensuring fair price of milk and its safe supply.
Protein is the vital nutrition for normal growth and development of brain and other essential nourishments of human body while livestock is the pivotal source of nutrition.
Divisional Office of Department of Animal Resources, Rajshahi organized the discussion yesterday in its office conference hall to mark the ‘World Milk Day- 2016’.
Additional Commissioner of Rajshahi division Sultan Abdul Hamid addressed the discussion as chief guest with Divisional Deputy Director of Animal
Resources Mohir Uddin in the chair.
Deputy General Manager of Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank Khandakar Golam
Mostofa and Additional District Animal Resource Officer Dr Zulfikar Akhtar
Hossain also spoke.
During his keynote presentation, Kolyan Kumar Fouzder, Assistant Director
of Animal resources, highlighted the importance and significance of the day
besides giving an overview of milk production in the division.
He mentioned that large-scale promotion of the livestock sector is very
important to remove the existing protein deficiency alongside ensuring food
security.
Besides meeting up the nutritional deficit especially meat and milk, the
livestock sector has laudable contribution to enrich the soil nutrient, which
is being declined gradually due to indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers
and harmful pesticides.
Kalyan Kumar Fouzder said most of the people suffer from malnutrition
specially lacking of animal protein like milk, meat and egg. He revealed that
production of huge amount of meat through the indigenous beef-cattle
improvement would supply low cost meat for people and it will ultimately
protect them from malnutrition.
“Milk production can be enhanced to ten times more through only cross-
breeding the cows,” he added.
Speakers at a post-rally discussion unequivocally called for boosting milk production and its consumption to eradicate the malnutrition problems particularly among the poor and distressed children.
Highlighting the enormous aspects of milk to the nation-building process they mentioned that milk consumption is very important for both physical and mental development of the children. So, utmost emphasis should be given on ensuring fair price of milk and its safe supply.
Protein is the vital nutrition for normal growth and development of brain and other essential nourishments of human body while livestock is the pivotal source of nutrition.
Divisional Office of Department of Animal Resources, Rajshahi organized the discussion yesterday in its office conference hall to mark the ‘World Milk Day- 2016’.
Additional Commissioner of Rajshahi division Sultan Abdul Hamid addressed the discussion as chief guest with Divisional Deputy Director of Animal
Resources Mohir Uddin in the chair.
Deputy General Manager of Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank Khandakar Golam
Mostofa and Additional District Animal Resource Officer Dr Zulfikar Akhtar
Hossain also spoke.
During his keynote presentation, Kolyan Kumar Fouzder, Assistant Director
of Animal resources, highlighted the importance and significance of the day
besides giving an overview of milk production in the division.
He mentioned that large-scale promotion of the livestock sector is very
important to remove the existing protein deficiency alongside ensuring food
security.
Besides meeting up the nutritional deficit especially meat and milk, the
livestock sector has laudable contribution to enrich the soil nutrient, which
is being declined gradually due to indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers
and harmful pesticides.
Kalyan Kumar Fouzder said most of the people suffer from malnutrition
specially lacking of animal protein like milk, meat and egg. He revealed that
production of huge amount of meat through the indigenous beef-cattle
improvement would supply low cost meat for people and it will ultimately
protect them from malnutrition.
“Milk production can be enhanced to ten times more through only cross-
breeding the cows,” he added.
