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Profitable broiler farming at the villages of Khulna district in Bangladesh
Farukul Islam (a), Bashna Akther (b), Anguara Khatun (c), Md. Harun-Or- Rashid (d) and Md. Shamsul Hossain (a)
aDept. of Animal Breeding and Genetics. Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh 2202
bDept. of Livestock Services, Farmgate, Dhaka 1215
cDept. of Poultry Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh 2202
dPRAN Dairy Ltd, PRAN-RFL Centre, Badda, Dhaka 1212
J. bios. agric. res. | Volume 08, Issue 01, pp. 678-684 | Available online: 25 April 2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18801/jbar.080116.80
Profitable broiler farming at the villages of Khulna district in Bangladesh
Farukul Islam (a), Bashna Akther (b), Anguara Khatun (c), Md. Harun-Or- Rashid (d) and Md. Shamsul Hossain (a)
aDept. of Animal Breeding and Genetics. Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh 2202
bDept. of Livestock Services, Farmgate, Dhaka 1215
cDept. of Poultry Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh 2202
dPRAN Dairy Ltd, PRAN-RFL Centre, Badda, Dhaka 1212
J. bios. agric. res. | Volume 08, Issue 01, pp. 678-684 | Available online: 25 April 2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18801/jbar.080116.80
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Title: Profitable broiler farming at the villages of Khulna district in Bangladesh
Abstract: Data from a total of 49 broiler farmers in the villages of Khulna in Bangladesh were collected to seek suggestions from the farmers to explore the knowledge how to make broiler farming a profitable and sustainable enterprise. Many (40.8%) of the broiler farmers were secondary school certificate holder and took broiler farming as their main occupation (59.2%) and most of them (71.4%) received training in broiler farming. Most of the broiler farms were small in scale of operation and majority of the farmers (73.5%) reported high price of day old chicks at their end. However, 51% farmers informed that Marek’s disease vaccines were administered at hatchery by the day old chick producing company and most of the farmers were using Newcastle Disease and Infectious Bursal Disease Vaccine in their farm. All farmers were brooding their broiler bird for a period of 5 to 7 days and most of them using electric brooder and hurricane lantern was using for standby power supplier in all enumerated broiler farm. Farmer and his family members were the main worker in the operation and all farmers sold their live broiler bird to the traders at their farm gate. Live broiler’s body weight at marketing, feed conversion ratio, day old chick weight, mortality and average daily body weight gain were 1.73 kg, 1.44, 48.39± 0.39 g, 4.64% and 50.39 g, respectively. Feed price per kg, day old chick price per piece and per kg live broiler price were 45.56, 56.90± 0.56 and 127.35± 0.92 Bangladeshi Taka (BDT), respectively. Present study explored the opinion of farmers, which suggested that, providing the broiler farmers with bank loan in a lower rate of interest, making loan easy and available, supplying feed from factory to the farmers directly in credit and stabilizing market price of day old chicks, feed and live broiler at marketing age could make the broiler farming a profitable and sustainable enterprise and which could contribute lot more in rural economy of Bangladesh.
Key Words: Broiler production, Profit, Production performance and Farmer suggestions
Abstract: Data from a total of 49 broiler farmers in the villages of Khulna in Bangladesh were collected to seek suggestions from the farmers to explore the knowledge how to make broiler farming a profitable and sustainable enterprise. Many (40.8%) of the broiler farmers were secondary school certificate holder and took broiler farming as their main occupation (59.2%) and most of them (71.4%) received training in broiler farming. Most of the broiler farms were small in scale of operation and majority of the farmers (73.5%) reported high price of day old chicks at their end. However, 51% farmers informed that Marek’s disease vaccines were administered at hatchery by the day old chick producing company and most of the farmers were using Newcastle Disease and Infectious Bursal Disease Vaccine in their farm. All farmers were brooding their broiler bird for a period of 5 to 7 days and most of them using electric brooder and hurricane lantern was using for standby power supplier in all enumerated broiler farm. Farmer and his family members were the main worker in the operation and all farmers sold their live broiler bird to the traders at their farm gate. Live broiler’s body weight at marketing, feed conversion ratio, day old chick weight, mortality and average daily body weight gain were 1.73 kg, 1.44, 48.39± 0.39 g, 4.64% and 50.39 g, respectively. Feed price per kg, day old chick price per piece and per kg live broiler price were 45.56, 56.90± 0.56 and 127.35± 0.92 Bangladeshi Taka (BDT), respectively. Present study explored the opinion of farmers, which suggested that, providing the broiler farmers with bank loan in a lower rate of interest, making loan easy and available, supplying feed from factory to the farmers directly in credit and stabilizing market price of day old chicks, feed and live broiler at marketing age could make the broiler farming a profitable and sustainable enterprise and which could contribute lot more in rural economy of Bangladesh.
Key Words: Broiler production, Profit, Production performance and Farmer suggestions
APA (American Psychological Association)
Islam, F., Akther, B., Khatun, A., Harun-Or- Rashid, M. & Hossain, M. S. (2016). Profitable broiler farming at the villages of Khulna district in Bangladesh. Journal of Bioscience and Agriculture Research, 08(01), 678-684.
MLA (Modern Language Association)
Islam, F., Akther, B., Khatun, A., Harun-Or- Rashid, M. & Hossain, M. S. "Profitable broiler farming at the villages of Khulna district in Bangladesh." Journal of Bioscience and Agriculture Research, 08.01 (2016), 678-684.
Chicago/Turabian
Islam, F., Akther, B., Khatun, A., Harun-Or- Rashid, M. & Hossain, M. S. Profitable broiler farming at the villages of Khulna district in Bangladesh. Journal of Bioscience and Agriculture Research, 08, no. 01 (2016), 678-684.
Islam, F., Akther, B., Khatun, A., Harun-Or- Rashid, M. & Hossain, M. S. (2016). Profitable broiler farming at the villages of Khulna district in Bangladesh. Journal of Bioscience and Agriculture Research, 08(01), 678-684.
MLA (Modern Language Association)
Islam, F., Akther, B., Khatun, A., Harun-Or- Rashid, M. & Hossain, M. S. "Profitable broiler farming at the villages of Khulna district in Bangladesh." Journal of Bioscience and Agriculture Research, 08.01 (2016), 678-684.
Chicago/Turabian
Islam, F., Akther, B., Khatun, A., Harun-Or- Rashid, M. & Hossain, M. S. Profitable broiler farming at the villages of Khulna district in Bangladesh. Journal of Bioscience and Agriculture Research, 08, no. 01 (2016), 678-684.
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