GAIBANDHA, Dec 4, 2019 (BSS) – A total of 800 flood affected farmers of
Sadar upazila got concentrate feed and anthelmintic tablets for their cattle
from the Livestock Department on Tuesday.
Whip of the Jatiya Sangshad Mahabub Ara Begum Gini distributed the tablets
and feed among the farmers as the chief guest at a function, held at the
district livestock office premises.
The chief guest in her speech said the government has taken up a plan to
construct Mujib Kella in the district as elsewhere of the country on the bank
of the rivers so that the flood victims along with their cattle and poultry
birds could take shelter there during the flood.
She urged the farmers to rear cow, goat, sheep, chicken and duck at larger
scale to the meet the demand of nutrition of the country and change their
socio-economic condition.
The whip also asked the field level officers and the staff to be more
serious and professional in providing the official services to the farmers so
that they could rear the cattle and poultry birds in hygienic way without any
disturbance.
Deputy commissioner (DC) Abdul Matin presided over the function while
police super Towhidul Islam and upazila chairman Shah Sarwar Kabir spoke at
the event as special guests.
Each of the farmers received 75 kgs of concentrate feed and 12 anthelmintic
tablets for their cattle.