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Integrated
farming of poultry, fishery, livestock, and agricultural
crop production has been practiced by DRF in the villages
of Charkashim Nagar and Char Sayet in Belabo Upozilla
of Narsingdi District in Bangladesh.
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The DRF has constructed a number of
poultry sheds adjacent to its office complex in the
village of Charkashim Nagar. In these sheds, broiler
chicken are grown from a day-old chicks for meat and
layer chickens are grown for eggs. The grown up broiler
chicken and the eggs are sold to the buyers from Dhaka
city and other nearby towns. The chicken manure are
used for crop production and in the preparation of fish
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A
number of very large and small fish ponds have been
made for fresh water fishery in Charkashim Nagar. A
variety of tropical fishes such as Ruhi, Katla, Mrigel,
Carp, Silver Carp, Thai Puti, Pangash (Cat Fish), Telapia
etc. are cultured in those ponds.
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Fishes are grown very well from fish
fingerlings using modern technology and management system.
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Cattle
Farming (Livestock) has been practiced by DRF for the
past several years in the Belabo Upozilla area using
a modernised version of the 'Baghi (profit sharing)'
system.The Baghi system is a traditional system that
has been practiced by the people of this area for generations
and is deeply embedded in the social system.
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Under the modernised version of this
system of DRF, about a year or older cattle is given
to the poor men or women to look after and nourish under
certain terms and conditions but putting zero financial
risk on their part. DRF provides back ups with logistics,
veternary service, and interest-free financial loan
support if it becomes at all necessary. After a certain
period, when the cattle become grown up they are sold
at a significantly higher prices. Thereby the value
added minus the treatment and other associated costs
gives the net profit that is equally shared between
the person whom each cattle is given under the Baghi
system and DRF. DRF bears the full risk of mortality
of the cattle. This program has been operating very
successfully and many poor people and families have
profoundly benefitted from this system and their poverty
is eradicated. Moreover, improved, high yielding meat
and milk variety of cattle are being produced using
modern artificial and natural insemination techniques
using high breed bulls. |