RAJSHAHI: All field level officials, employees and volunteers concerned should discharge their duties with utmost sincerity and honesty to reach artificial insemination services to farmers doorsteps for improving
cattle varieties and to fulfill the region’s increasing demands for protein,  reports BSS.
Some high officials of Department of Livestock Services (DLS) made the call while inaugurating a four month long training for artificial insemination
technicians (volunteers) here on Thursday.
DLS under its ‘Artificial Insemination Extension and Embryo Transfer Technology Implementation project’ organized the training at Rajabarihat Artificial Insemination Training and Technology Transfer Center.
Divisional Deputy Director of DLS Mohir Uddin addressed the session as the chief guest with Assistant Director of Animal Production Fazlul Kader in the chair. Poultry Genetics Specialist Dr Humayun Kabir, Additional District Livestock Officer Dr Zulfiker Akter Hossain, Dairy Farm Manager
Dr. Tufizul Islam and AIET Project Co-coordinator Dr. Rakibul Islam also spoke.
Mohir Uddin says large-scale promotion of the livestock sector is very important to remove the existing protein deficiency alongside ensuring food security. The region has an enormous prospect of expanding the livestock sector through best uses of its existing natural resources.
Highlighting the importance of the artificial insemination programme he said the cross-breed calves are comparatively more superior to the local ones so they need special care and improved management for the survival.
The unemployment problem in the region especially in its rural areas could be reduced to a greater extent through technology transfer and making the dairy farming popular in the grassroots level.