Studies on the Farmer's Innovative Technologies for Livestock Production in Bangladesh.

Abstract:

The present study was undertaken to investigate the innovative technologies used by farmers for livestock production in Bangladesh. A field survey was conducted on farmers’s innovative techniques on livestock in the Sirajganj, Jashore, and Bandarban districts. For that survey, a total of 220 farmers who traditionally used innovative technologies in the study area were considered. The information was collected by using an interview schedule. Agriculture was the main occupation of the farmers in the study areas, namely Shahjadpur, Sirajganj (70%), Jashore Sadar (67%), and Naikhongchari, Bandarban (60%). In Jashore, Bandarban, and Sirajganj, the cattle possessions were 5.30±1.10, 3.20±0.97, and 11.96±2.11 no./family, respectively. In the case of small ruminants, the average number of goats was 11.20±3.11, 6.32±1.10, and 5.76±1.30, whereas sheep were 3.84±0.68, 3.21±0.97, and 1.77±0.56 no./family in Jashore, Bandarban, and Sirajganj, respectively. According to the general information provided by the farmers, small-scale livestock production systems exist in the study area. The study tries to highlight the list of farmers’s innovative technologies that were used for livestock production. Among the identified innovative technologies, it was found that 63.33%, 23.33%, 10%, and 3.34% were utilised by farmers in the districts of Jashore, Bandarban, Sirajganj & Bandarban, and Sirajganj & Jashore, respectively.