Abstract:
The objective of the project was to undertake census of crossbred animals in Dhaka metropolitan area to know its production capacity and economic efficiency of small holders availability of this crossbred animals their management and feeding practice, extension and veterinary service from the Directorate of Livestock Services and other constraint faced by the farmers. To achieve these objectives a questionnaire was developed jointly by BARC and DLS. The questionnaire was pretested and modified accordingly. About 2 months door to door survey work was conducted by enumerators. The whole Dhaka Metropolitan city area was divided into 10 zones and this Zone was subsequently sub divided in to 86 sub-zones in order to conduct the survey properly. 2-3 sub-zones were allotted to each enumerators. The enumerators worked under the guidance of 4(four) thana livestock officers of the metropolitan areas and the principal investigator. The survey result shows that 479 farmers in Jatrabari, 309 farmers in Malibagh, 215 farmers in Khilkhet, 351 farmers in Sutrapur, 163 farmers in Solpur, 322 farmers in Lalbag, 174 farmers in Mohakhali, 470 farmers in Shamolee, 324 farmers in Mirpur, 166 farmers in Dhanmondi zone respectively mear a total of 18,041 cattle, of which 12,985 are crossbred animals. The survey result also shows that out of 2973 household attended by the enumerators, 2776 (93.4%) farmers having 104 milk cow and are categorized as small holders, 162(5.4%) farmers having 5-10 milk cows are medium farmers and 35 (1.2%) farmers having 11-50 and above milk cows are large farmers. The surver result demonstrated that 49.3% of the farmers belongs to businessmen, 32% are service personal and remaining 18.8% of the farmers are from different profession. The production record of crossbred cows varies from 5 litres to 25 litres per day depending on feeding & management practices. It was noticed from the survey result that about 75.2% of farmers used artificial insemination (AI). The rest used both artificial insemination and natural service by breeding bulls.
