The government has set a target of training 50,000 cattle and poultry farmers in the 2026-27 financial year, and 20,259 had been trained by October. Agricare24, citing BSS, reports that Fisheries and Livestock Minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid gave the figures in parliament on Tuesday 10 November in reply to a question from Mohammad Mazharul Islam, member of parliament for Kishoreganj-1.
The minister also described plans to train fish farmers to raise productivity. Two batches each have been allotted to the country's 488 upazila fisheries offices, 976 batches in all, and fish farmers are receiving inputs to set up demonstration farms under packages of the Department of Fisheries' development projects.
In the livestock sector, the target for this year is to train 9,860 meat processors; 2,922 had been trained by October.
To promote modern farm management and protect public health, 32,000 courtyard meetings with cattle and poultry keepers are planned, and 10,322 had been held by October.
The minister added that the Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute (BLRI) had given technical advice to about 1,000 farmers and entrepreneurs in the past three years, and that about 3,500 farmers had received loan support over the same period.
By the minister's figures, about 40 percent of the farmer-training target, about 30 percent of the meat-processor target and about a third of the courtyard meetings had been met in the first four months of the financial year.
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Source: Agricare24
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