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    Integrated Farming
 

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.

 

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 feed.

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.

 

Fishes are grown very well from fish fingerlings using modern technology and management system.

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.

 

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.