AN ASSESSMENT ON BEEF FATTENING AND COW REARING IN CONTEXT OF FOOD SECURITY PROGRAM

Abstract

In rural area of Bangladesh, poor people start income generating activities (micro enterprises) either by their own initiatives or support from development initiatives (GOs, projects etc). But in most cases, these poor people can not manage properly and expand their businesses efficiently and effectively, due to lack of their own analytical and management capacities. As a result, in some cases they take high risk, which causes huge losses and in other cases take less risk, which causes low profit. Therefore, it is very difficult for large market actors and MFI to make a sustainable relationship with these micro enterprises which inhibits the growth of entire potential sectors in Bangladesh. Business plan & management services and providers at local level are essential for the growth of any sector in Bangladesh. Most of the poor people in the rural areas purchase cattle whether for beef fattening and for cow rearing. They do not analysis what is more profitable or what is applicable for them in context of their environment. So most of cases they face loss. From this study it may be suggested for a poor women, beef fattening is more reliable business than cow rearing and this pay back quickly return and from this profit they can maintain their livelihood. So everyone have to consider the factors relating the business and then select that is more preferable to one.