Milk production

It is worrying to note that Bangladesh is running short of its required amount of animal protein like milk, meat and egg by 83 crore tonnes and by 484 crore pieces. According to a report in this newspaper yesterday, the country is now producing 73 crore tonnes of milk against the demand of 147 crore tonnes, meat 62 crore tonnes against demand of 71 crore tonnes and eggs 1191.24 crore pieces against annual demand of 1675 crore pieces. Only healthy people can contribute to the overall development of a country. Little can be expected from the ones suffering from malnutrition. Protein is the vital nutrition for normal growth and development of brain and other essential nourishments of human body.  
Why should the country lag behind in producing the said nutrition items when there are immense possibilities for increasing their production significantly? By making strenuous efforts the dairy farming can be made popular at the grassroots level. If it is done there will be no dearth of milk in the country. It is encouraging to note that Bangladesh has made a record in fish production in the world. Lack of animal protein like milk, meat and egg causes malnutrition. Production of huge amount of meat through the indigenous beef-cattle improvement can supply low cost meat for people and it will ultimately protect them from malnutrition.
The country has immense prospects of expanding the dairy farming sector. The sector can meet up the nutritional deficit especially meat and milk on the one hand and can contribute to enriching the soil nutrient on the other. Indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers and harmful pesticides is playing havoc with the fertility of soil.  
What is needed is extending logistic supports and motivation of people about the importance and utility of artificial insemination programme in the interest of enhancing meat and milk production through further expansion of the sector. Milk production can be enhanced greatly through only cross-breeding of the cows. 
The vast youth force in the country can be engaged in this sector. There are scores of impoverished widowed women in remote villages. There are also women deserted by their husbands. They can be motivated to rear up cows to increase milk production. It may eradicate their poverty greatly on the one hand and increase milk production on the other. A family can earn a substantial amount of money by selling milk from the cows it rears after meeting its demand. Bangladesh Rural Development Board and Social Welfare Department and nationalized commercial banks can provide necessary financial and logistic supports to the people willing to undertake dairy farming and other related ventures.  

 

Milk production

It is worrying to note that Bangladesh is running short of its required amount of animal protein like milk, meat and egg by 83 crore tonnes and by 484 crore pieces. According to a report in this newspaper yesterday, the country is now producing 73 crore tonnes of milk against the demand of 147 crore tonnes, meat 62 crore tonnes against demand of 71 crore tonnes and eggs 1191.24 crore pieces against annual demand of 1675 crore pieces. Only healthy people can contribute to the overall development of a country. Little can be expected from the ones suffering from malnutrition. Protein is the vital nutrition for normal growth and development of brain and other essential nourishments of human body. Why should the country lag behind in producing the said nutrition items when there are immense possibilities for increasing their production significantly? By making strenuous efforts the dairy farming can be made popular at the grassroots level. If it is done there will be no dearth of milk in the country. It is encouraging to note that Bangladesh has made a record in fish production in the world. Lack of animal protein like milk, meat and egg causes malnutrition. Production of huge amount of meat through the indigenous beef-cattle improvement can supply low cost meat for people and it will ultimately protect them from malnutrition. The country has immense prospects of expanding the dairy farming sector. The sector can meet up the nutritional deficit especially meat and milk on the one hand and can contribute to enriching the soil nutrient on the other. Indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers and harmful pesticides is playing havoc with the fertility of soil. What is needed is extending logistic supports and motivation of people about the importance and utility of artificial insemination programme in the interest of enhancing meat and milk production through further expansion of the sector. Milk production can be enhanced greatly through only cross-breeding of the cows. The vast youth force in the country can be engaged in this sector. There are scores of impoverished widowed women in remote villages. There are also women deserted by their husbands. They can be motivated to rear up cows to increase milk production. It may eradicate their poverty greatly on the one hand and increase milk production on the other. A family can earn a substantial amount of money by selling milk from the cows it rears after meeting its demand. Bangladesh Rural Development Board and Social Welfare Department and nationalized commercial banks can provide necessary financial and logistic supports to the people willing to undertake dairy farming and other related ventures.