| dc.description | In respect of nutrition, poultry meat is an excellent source of high quality proteins, fat,
minerals and vitamins to balance the human diet. Broilers are now available with the traits
of quick growth and high feed conversion efficiency. Broiler farming has already become a
prime source of animal protein, source of family income, and gainful employment
opportunity to farmers throughout the year. Poultry manure has of high fertilizer value
which can be used for increasing yield of all crops. The advantages of broiler farming are
(1) initial investment is a little lower than layer farming, (2) rearing period is short, 28-32
days only, (3) good number of flocks can be taken in the same shed, (4) having high feed
conversion efficiency, (5) faster return from the investment and (6) poultry meat is higher as
compared to red meat. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The study was conducted to find out the socio-economic status of farmers and prospect
of broiler farming. Seventy five farmers who reared broilers were selected randomly
from Sadar, Birol and Chirirbondor Upazila at Dinajpur district. Twenty one (21)
variables such as age, education, land size, poultry farm size, total income, occupation,
counselling, vaccination, training, strain, source of chick, price of day old chick, feed
price, use of feed, market age, market weight, market price, batch per year, annual
income from broiler, capital and feed conversion ratio were considered. Correlation coefficient were find out between age and education, land and education, education and
capital, total income and batch per year, total income and income from broiler, capital
and income from broiler, capital and broiler farm size, feed price and no. of bird,
education level and income from broiler, income from broiler and batch per year.
Significant positive correlations were found in the case of total income and batch per
year, total income and income from broiler, capital and income from broiler, capital and
broiler farm size, income from broiler and batch per year. Other variables were
insignificant. In case of social characteristics like age, total annual income and land size,
the mean and standard deviation were 36.28 ± 9.28, 143000 ± 71352.76 and 15.82 ±
12.88, respectively. About 62.67% low income level farmers were involved in broiler
farming. As high as 45.33% farmers were educated up to secondary level and next to
41.33% were in case of above secondary level. The average bird number of the farms
was 860.93 and 64% farms were small category. In case of main occupation of the
broiler farmer 40% were involved in agriculture & 20% were in poultry farming. About
24% farmers visited technical graduates for taking their counselling, 65.33% farmers
vaccinated their birds regularly and 45.33% of the broiler farmers had taken training on
broiler rearing. Among several broiler strains in the Bangladesh, as high as 33.33%
farmer were rearing Cobb-500 strain. The price of Day Old Chick and feed were 36.15 ±
6.28/chick and 43.05 ± 9.43/kg respectively. The market ages, weight and price were
32.68 ± 2.25, 1.57 ± 0.106 and Tk 123.64 ± 5.15 respectively. So, it can be concluded
that educated and low income level peoples from different occupational background
practice the broiler enterprises as a main or additional source of income. | en_US |
