Prospects and Problems of Indigenous Sheep Production in South-Western Coastal Regions of Bangladesh (original) (raw)
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International journal of agricultural economics, 2020
The present research was design to explore the socioeconomic conditions, the existing husbandry management practices along with the problems and constraints of native sheep rearing farmers at the field level. The data was collected from purposively selected 11 upazilas of 6 districts in Bangladesh. The data was collected through a pre-tested interview schedule from 1768 sheep rearing farmers by using simple random sampling technique and analyzed descriptively. The research revealed that 52.65% of farmers were literate in the study areas and most of them (32.52%) were studied classes 1 to 5. The literacy rate of the sheep farmers was the highest in Nikhongchari and Subornochar upazilas. The main occupation of sheep rearing farmer was agriculture (65.16%). However, the landholdings and annual income were found 122.01±8.85 decimal and BDT 80 thousand respectively. The highest landholding and annual income were found in Subornochar (373.19 decimal) and Copanigonj upazillas (BDT 215 thousand) respectively. Moreover, Subornochar and Copanigonj upazilas were found rich in livestock assets than the other surveyed areas. The highest herd size of sheep per household found 76.61±8.90 and 30.71±7.26 in Copanigonj and Subornochar upazilas respectively. In all irrespective of areas, the herd size per household was found 13.27±1.23. Among all types of sheep ewe (56.47%) was the highest because farmers normally kept ewes for further reproduction, ram and wither were sold early in the market. Furthermore, the existing management practices of native sheep found poor irrespective of areas. Most of the farmers have no separated shed and 21.50% of them used cow shed as the housing of native sheep. Hence, the feeding system was mostly the entire free movement system (49.33%) and the average time for field feeding was 9.33±0.05 hours/day. The farmers used open land (66.34%) and roadside (61.53%) as pasture land for their sheep. The highest 43.15% of farmers reported a shortage of natural feeding land followed by disease and treatment (41.00%) related problems. The organized efforts should be taken to incorporate a feasible and sustainable management system of native sheep and consequently to improve the socioeconomic conditions of rural poor farmers in Bangladesh.
COASTAL SHEEP FARMING AT THE VILLAGES OF NOAKHALI DISTRICT IN BANGLADESH
BANGLADESH JOURNAL OF PROGRESSIVE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY , 2017
A total of 86 coastal sheep keeping farmers were enumerated to know about the contribution of sheep farming through sheep sale return and acceptance pattern of sheep meat in the study region at the villages of Noakhali district in Bangladesh during April 2016 to May 2016. Many farmers were found sheep meat tastier than goat meat and they (89.50%) reported that acceptance of sheep meat at their community was increasing day by day. The highest number of sheep was noted in farms group A (277.31±1.91) while the lowest found in group D (19.71±0.78) similarly; the highest return from sheep sale per farm was reported for farm group A (BDT 83461.54±1.91 year-1 farm-1), while the lowest was documented for farm group D (BDT 15128.5±0.78 year-1 farm-1). Over all price of sheep meat was BDT 550.00±0.51 kg-1 .
Indian Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, 2018
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Socio-Economic Profile and Management Practices Adopted by Sheep Farmers in Dhubri Distrct of Assam
Indian Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Research, 2019
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Socio-Demographic Study of the Farmers of Barind Area of Bangladesh
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Sheep rearing: A climate resilient alternative livelihoods for the coastal communities of Bangladesh
Abstract: VSO Bangladesh provided 4 sheep to a right holder in two years ago under its unrestricted funds. This case study report is an output of that effort. Moreover, it is an assessment of the progress of the model village activities of VSOB in its pilot phase. The report presents a short discourse of the model based on field scenario along with the views and opinions of the implementing partners and right holders as well as cost benefit analysis focusing on the particular case story. The study result addressed that the model has achieved success in terms of diversification livelihood, income generation, and women empowerment and in strengthening rural economy. Also the study was undertaken to investigate the performance of native sheep in coastal areas in Bangladesh. Data were collected during September, 2014 to October, 2014 from Sholakura village of Bagerhat district. An exploratory survey was conducted to understand sheep production systems, identify breeding practices and constraints as a first step. Data were generated through interviewing 1 randomly selected sheep/farm owner using a detailed structured questionnaire. Results indicate that the sheep were climate adaptive, highly saline and disease tolerant. It was found that sheep were kept for multiple objectives with source of income, meat, wool, sheep-dung and breeding was generally uncontrolled. It was identified that birth weight was significantly higher in Coastal sheep than in Barind and Jamuna and higher wool yield was obtained in Coastal sheep in the summer. Though the wool was coarse and hairy, the wool from Coastal sheep have more bends per inch, and was finer. Diarrhoea, pneumonia in lambs, Foot and Mouth Diseases (FMD) were the most common diseases in all sheep. The survey identified several constraints such as early disposal of breeding stocks, small flock sizes with only a few breeding males, uncontrolled mating, communal grazing in wet season and free roaming during dry season that make controlled breeding or mating very difficult. The study also identified that traditional breeding practices such as sharing of breeding rams should be further strengthened. Considering the small flock sizes, reasonable genetic gain demands the formation of breeder’s group (co-operatives) schemes. This in turn requires the full participation and long-term commitment of sheep keepers and other sheep development actors. To realize full benefits of a breeding strategy; approaches should be holistic with concurrent improvement in the non-genetic factors (disease resistance and feed efficiency) as well.