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标题：Participation of Rural People in Dairy Enterprise in a Selected Area of Bangladesh
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作者：M.S. Rabbani ; M.M. Alam ; M.Y. Ali 等
期刊名称：Pakistan Journal of Nutrition
印刷版ISSN：1680-5194
电子版ISSN：1994-7984
出版年度：2004
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：29-34
DOI：10.3923/pjn.2004.29.34
出版社：Asian Network for Scientific Information
摘要：The aim of the study is to be participation of rural people in dairy enterprise in relation to their socio-economic characteristics in the selected areas of Bangladesh. The study was carried out at the five village of Bogra District of Bangladesh. From each village 20 farm families were selected with the purpose of the study and data were collected from them by direct interview. A total of 62% respondents were engaged in agriculture sector who have one or more dairy cattle. About 49% rural people were illiterate while 51% of them were literate. The result indicated that 65% men, 19% son, 10% women, 1% daughter and 4% servant were actively involved in the feeding practices. The farmer participation in feeding practices such as chopped straw, UMB and UTS, concentrate mixture and green grass to their cows were 90, 2, 40 and 90% respectively. In the study areas 78% rural people milked their cows once daily and about 31% farmers were inseminated their cows with artificial insemination. The Participation of in health care activities such as use of disinfectant to their dairy houses and utensils, use of vaccines, treated their diseased cow with veterinary Surgeon were 22, 22 and 29% respectively. It is evident that average total number of cattle per household was 6 and large farmers raised the highest number of crossbreed cattle (4.71 number/household). Small farmers were the highest of indigenous cattle raisers. Many problems were the barrier to milk production and establishing dairy enterprises in the study area. The result suggested that improved feeding technology, proper hygienic and sanitation program, proper treatment, sound breeding policy should be taken and more participation in management practices are necessary for increasing the milk production as well as establishing dairy enterprises.