| dc.description | Bangladesh is an agriculture-based developing country with approximately 140 million
poultry (Rahman, 2000). The majority of these poultry are indigenous quails and ducks
(Das et al., 2008). The productive performance of this quails is low and losses due to
diseases and predators are high (Nakamura, 1990). However, exotic pure breeds did not
perform satisfactorily in scavenging system because of their higher nutritional demand
and lower disease resistance (Haque et al., 1999). Therefore, in addition to indigenous
poultry, rural and semi-urban people need such a suitable species of bird which can be
reared easily with little investment and provide more economic return within a very short
time. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The present study was conducted at Bogura and Naogaon district to assess the
potentiality of quail farming in rural areas. A total of 40 quail farm were selected at
random basis from the study area. The purpose was to examine the present status,
problems and prospects of quail farming. The problems and prospects of quail farming of
selected areas were quantified and assessed. Data were collected using a pretested
interview schedule from March to June, 2018 to identify problems in rearing quail and to
know how much farmers are habituated in using different management technologies. The
relevant information that were collected during study period are age, education, main
occupation, land holding, training, annual income, number of quail, number of breeds or
varieties, types of quail farm, rearing, sources of day old chick, bedding materials,
diseases prevalence, mortality, day old chick price, feed price, market age, market
weight, FCR, biosecurity, future plan, ventilation and lighting system, use of footbath,
vaccination frequencies and marketing channel. Introducing of quail farming, training of
quail farmers could increase the quail farming with increased income and employment to
youth and small holder marginal farmers. In Bogura and Naogaon district, the quail
farmers are mostly middle aged people and they got mostly secondary education level.
Overall the biosecurity, vaccination schedule and production level is satisfactory in the
represented area. Among the respondents 32.5%, 47.5% and 20% were grouped as
young, middle aged and old aged groups respectively. A total of 60% farmers had
training on quail farming from NGO and dealers, 15% farmers maintain strict
biosecurity, 65% maintain moderate biosecurity and remaining 20% maintained no
biosecurity. Among the visited farms 20% farmers practice disinfection process to
disinfect their farms while the rest 80% farmers did not practice disinfection process. | en_US |
