BSS, Dhaka :
There is vibrance in the life of thousands with the opening of incubator doors at this poultry farm. All around the sound of chicks resonate with chirps of chicks which are just coming out of their egg shells.
Thousands of chicks, born in the poultry hatchery of Hosne Ara, a successful female entrepreneur of Natore, are spreading across the country every day. In her decade-long colossal task, she has been able to create numerous women entrepreneurs. Now her aim is to go far away.
Hosne Ara has set up the Jishan Poultry Hatchery in Chowkirpar area on the north side of Rani Bhabani Palace of Natore which is the biggest of a total of five poultry hatcheries in Natore.
Over one lakh eggs are placed in the trays of nine compartments in the heater of hatchery incubator. The eggs are kept there for 18 days in 37.80 degrees Celsius temperature and then the eggs are shifted to the incubator hatcher tray. After keeping the eggs in hatcher tray in 37.20 degrees Celsius for three days, thousands of chicks are born there.
There are two “Sonali Chicken” farms with 11,500 capacity to supply eggs to the hatchery. Besides there are more joint venture poultry farms for supplying quality of eggs.
The chicks born in the hatchery are supplied within 72 hours through baskets made of bamboo. Apart from Natore, the poultry farm owners of Rajshahi, Bogura, Joypurhat, Naogaon, Pabna, Sirajganj, Kushtia and Mymensingh districts purchase these chicks at Taka 18 to Taka 20 each. Excluding the cost, the amount of profit is not bad.
The success of Hosne Ara not came overnight. She earned this success through her hard lanour and merit. She embarked on poultry hatchery business 10 years back. Before it, she set up a poultry farm.
While talking to this reporter, Hosne Ara went back to two decades ago and said: “I launched my poultry farm with 10 chickens and then increased the number step by step.”
She said currently her husband and children are working as coworkers. But at the beginning, their outlook was negative.
Hosne Arar’s husband Hafez Lutfor Rahman said they once demolished the farm. “But she (Hosne Ara) was not broken down, rather touched the milestone of her prosperity within two decades due to her rock solid mental strength.
Though there was no hardship in Hosne Ara’s family, they were not so much solvent. Hosne Ara had to struggle a lot to maintain education expenses of their four children. She widened the size of her farm and once took the steering of her entire family.
Of the four children, eldest son Jishan is looking after her mother’s hatchery completing his study in law. While her second son Imran got a job in BCS Non-Cadre Service, third son Nayeem completed MBA from Dhaka University after obtaining honours from Patuakhali Science and Technology University and eldest son Tanveer is pursuing education in EEE at the OIC-run IUT in Gazipur.
There is vibrance in the life of thousands with the opening of incubator doors at this poultry farm. All around the sound of chicks resonate with chirps of chicks which are just coming out of their egg shells.
Thousands of chicks, born in the poultry hatchery of Hosne Ara, a successful female entrepreneur of Natore, are spreading across the country every day. In her decade-long colossal task, she has been able to create numerous women entrepreneurs. Now her aim is to go far away.
Hosne Ara has set up the Jishan Poultry Hatchery in Chowkirpar area on the north side of Rani Bhabani Palace of Natore which is the biggest of a total of five poultry hatcheries in Natore.
Over one lakh eggs are placed in the trays of nine compartments in the heater of hatchery incubator. The eggs are kept there for 18 days in 37.80 degrees Celsius temperature and then the eggs are shifted to the incubator hatcher tray. After keeping the eggs in hatcher tray in 37.20 degrees Celsius for three days, thousands of chicks are born there.
There are two “Sonali Chicken” farms with 11,500 capacity to supply eggs to the hatchery. Besides there are more joint venture poultry farms for supplying quality of eggs.
The chicks born in the hatchery are supplied within 72 hours through baskets made of bamboo. Apart from Natore, the poultry farm owners of Rajshahi, Bogura, Joypurhat, Naogaon, Pabna, Sirajganj, Kushtia and Mymensingh districts purchase these chicks at Taka 18 to Taka 20 each. Excluding the cost, the amount of profit is not bad.
The success of Hosne Ara not came overnight. She earned this success through her hard lanour and merit. She embarked on poultry hatchery business 10 years back. Before it, she set up a poultry farm.
While talking to this reporter, Hosne Ara went back to two decades ago and said: “I launched my poultry farm with 10 chickens and then increased the number step by step.”
She said currently her husband and children are working as coworkers. But at the beginning, their outlook was negative.
Hosne Arar’s husband Hafez Lutfor Rahman said they once demolished the farm. “But she (Hosne Ara) was not broken down, rather touched the milestone of her prosperity within two decades due to her rock solid mental strength.
Though there was no hardship in Hosne Ara’s family, they were not so much solvent. Hosne Ara had to struggle a lot to maintain education expenses of their four children. She widened the size of her farm and once took the steering of her entire family.
Of the four children, eldest son Jishan is looking after her mother’s hatchery completing his study in law. While her second son Imran got a job in BCS Non-Cadre Service, third son Nayeem completed MBA from Dhaka University after obtaining honours from Patuakhali Science and Technology University and eldest son Tanveer is pursuing education in EEE at the OIC-run IUT in Gazipur.
