Proper care for boosting animal husbandry stressed

Proper care of the domestic animals must be ensured for boosting the prospective animal husbandry sector to cut poverty and bring fortune to the rural people.
Speakers said this at two separate cattle-head vaccination camps arranged by BRAC, an NGO, at the houses of Abul Hossain and Rafikul Islam in village Taluk Esad Fakirtari under Sadar union of Pirgachha upazila here on Monday afternoon.
The NGO organised the cattle vaccination camps under its Social Empowerment Programme to save the cattle-heads from anthrax disease during this current rainy season and post-flood periods in rural areas.
Rural Livestock Physician Rostam Ali immunised more than 200 cows with vaccination against anthrax disease in these vaccination camps.
Pirgachha Upazila Coordinator of BRAC Mohammad Tariq Hossain, President of local community-based organisation ‘Polli Samaj’ Marjina Begum, female cow-farmer Kamy Rukhsana and local elite of the area, addressed the camps, among others.
A large number of people, including male and female cow-farmers, local public representatives, male and female community eladers and elite were present.
The speakers said hundreds of the rural people have already achieved self-reliance through commercial livestock rearing, cultivation of Jumbo and Napier variety grasses and marketing those successfully in recent years in the region.