Rangpur

Dairy sector boosts rural economy

 The dairy sector has been boosting the rural economy along with meeting nutritional demand and improving socioeconomic and health conditions of the common people in Rangpur region in recent years, reports BSS.
According to officials and experts, proper exploration of the prospective dairy sector adopting latest technologies and comprehensive steps, including setting up of milk-processing industries, can bring further change in rural economy.
Livestock specialist Dr Rowshanuzzman said setting up of milk processing and chilling factories and organising milk producers under cooperative systems could further enhance the sector in the region, including char areas.
“The rural as well as char economy are flourishing fast with animal husbandry and the common people selling huge milk but not getting fair price for lack of adequate dairy factory or milk processing industries or preservation facilities,” he added.
Agriculture and Environment Coordinator of RDRS Bangladesh Mamunur Rashid said hundreds of poor people living both in the main lands and char areas have been changing fortune through animal husbandry despite facing many hurdles.
“If the cooperatives systems were launched to ensure smooth marketing of the enormous quantity of milk being produced daily both in the main and char lands, the poverty-prone areas would achieve huge economic development,” he said.
Rangpur Dairy (RD) Milk Processing Factory, a successful private sector enterprise, in Mithapukur upazila here has already set up glaring example in flourishing the prospective dairy sector and creating huge jobs for poverty-stricken people to change their fate.
Senior official of the factory Ashraful Alam said hundreds of cows have been distributed among the poor of Shalaipur, Muradpur and many other villages in Rangpur to change their fortune under a massive plan of distributing thousands of cows.
“Many of the beneficiaries, mostly women, have already become owners of the supplied cows by paying actual price through supplying milk to the factory for a certain period when RD Factory authorities transferred the ownership to them,” he said.
He said RD Factory has a comprehensive plan to turn it into one of the biggest milk processing industries of the country by involving over 30,000 people of Rangpur and its adjoining districts in the region in future.

Rangpur

Dairy sector boosts rural economy

The dairy sector has been boosting the rural economy along with meeting nutritional demand and improving socioeconomic and health conditions of the common people in Rangpur region in recent years, reports BSS. According to officials and experts, proper exploration of the prospective dairy sector adopting latest technologies and comprehensive steps, including setting up of milk-processing industries, can bring further change in rural economy. Livestock specialist Dr Rowshanuzzman said setting up of milk processing and chilling factories and organising milk producers under cooperative systems could further enhance the sector in the region, including char areas. The rural as well as char economy are flourishing fast with animal husbandry and the common people selling huge milk but not getting fair price for lack of adequate dairy factory or milk processing industries or preservation facilities, he added. Agriculture and Environment Coordinator of RDRS Bangladesh Mamunur Rashid said hundreds of poor people living both in the main lands and char areas have been changing fortune through animal husbandry despite facing many hurdles. If the cooperatives systems were launched to ensure smooth marketing of the enormous quantity of milk being produced daily both in the main and char lands, the poverty-prone areas would achieve huge economic development, he said. Rangpur Dairy (RD) Milk Processing Factory, a successful private sector enterprise, in Mithapukur upazila here has already set up glaring example in flourishing the prospective dairy sector and creating huge jobs for poverty-stricken people to change their fate. Senior official of the factory Ashraful Alam said hundreds of cows have been distributed among the poor of Shalaipur, Muradpur and many other villages in Rangpur to change their fortune under a massive plan of distributing thousands of cows. Many of the beneficiaries, mostly women, have already become owners of the supplied cows by paying actual price through supplying milk to the factory for a certain period when RD Factory authorities transferred the ownership to them, he said. He said RD Factory has a comprehensive plan to turn it into one of the biggest milk processing industries of the country by involving over 30,000 people of Rangpur and its adjoining districts in the region in future.