Poultry provides excellent potential of rural empowerment

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BSS, Dhaka :
Jahura is now well equipped to deal with the realities effectively and can gradually climb out of poverty. Her experience that entailed her capacity to anticipate risks and use her resources leaves a lesson that rural poultry is elevating the food and nutrition security of the poorest households and reducing livelihood insecurity.
A visit to Jahura’s farm revealed that she was busy with her husband and two daughters there. They were collecting eggs from the farm. After collecting the eggs, her husband would go to market where he would sell those to their permanent customers.
“I am earning at least Taka 25,000-27,000 per month through rearing 150 poultry birds, 130 ducks and 11 cows,” said Jahura Khatun, a poultry farmer of Charkanai village in Patiya upazila of Chattogram district.
Recounting the bad days of her early life, she said, “I was only 17, when I got married.
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