OBTAINING ECONOMIC SOLVENCY THROUGH BEEF FATTENING IN PIROJPUR DISTRICT

Abstract

Beef fattening program have become an important business of the small farmer in Bangladesh.In few areas of Bangladesh a small scale beef fattening program has already been started.The experiment was carried out at Nazirpur upazila of Pirojpur district to determine socio-economic conditions of the farmers.The data were collected through direct interviews with farmers by going door to door.The interview involved 130 farmers who rear cattle for fattening.Collected data were analyzed in Excel sheet.It was found that most of the farmers were in middle aged categories(50.77%).More than one-third(77.77%) of the respondents were farmers by profession followed by businessman(13%).About 59.23% respondents were from medium sized family. About 51.53% respondents started the program with their own capital followed by 23.07% taking bank loan and about 47% of the respondents got government office support whereas 63% did not get any government office support during the whole fattening period.About 58.46% farmers got training on cattle fattening. For fattening most of the farmers choose both cross breed and indigenous breed (41.53%). At 80% case cattle were reared for less than 6 months.Cattle were bought seasonally most of the time(84.62%) for beef fattening.In beef fattening farms, technological and economic performance optimization is imperative for reaching profitabilitythe small scale beef fattening represents an important component of the agribusiness sector of the economy with great economic, income, poverty reduction and social enlightenment.The results of this study will be fruitful for farmers and researchers to identify the overall problems and their remedies on management and marketing related to cattle fattening program in Bangladesh.