Livestock nutrition in different areas of Bangladesh.

1. A PRESENTATION ON PRESENT STATUS OF RUMINANT NUTRITION AND FEED INDUSTRY IN SOME
SELECTED AREAS OF BANGLADESH (SONAIMURI,CHATMOHAR,MEHERPUR SADAR,TALA,LAKSHAM AND
SALNA)

2. 1. Prospects and problems of ruminant nutrition and feed
industry
• Cattle :800
• Sheep :150
• Goat :500
Total livestock
population=800
• Cattle :100
• Sheep :12
• Goat :50
• Chicken :500
Total number of
farms=
• No feed mill in salna area
Total number of feed
mill or small
processing area

3. • AVAILABLE FEED RESOURCES
• Roughage: They are bulky
feeds containing 18% crude fiber
when they are dry. In Salna
available roughages are:
i. Green grass
ii. Straw
iii. Soybean
iv. Dry maize stalks
v. Fodder

4.  Concentrate
They are low in fiber and high in
digestible nutrient. Available
concentrate feeds in Salna are:
Rice polish
Rice bran
Wheat bran
 maize
Broken rice
Mustard oil cake

5.  FEED ADDITIVES
• DCP
• Salt
• Molases
• CP vet
• Andora
• Andex
• LT vet
• DB (Dairy Beef)
• Zymovet
• Mega Feed DV

6.  Facilities provided by the upazila
livestock office to the farmers
• Farmers don’t get any facilities like training, campaign etc. from
upazila livestock office.
 Nutrition and management related
problems of farmers
 They don’t know well about feeding and management
of livestock.
 They told us that the price of feed is high that’s why
the cant give enough nutritious feed to their cattle.
 They don’t have available livestock experts or vets to
consult with their problems.

7.  Suggestions from the livestock experts
to solve the problem
Training programs from upazila
livestock office should be held.
Farmers should consult with the
experts or doctors.
Various campaign should be held to
concern people about livestock
management and practices.

8.  Pictures of farmers of management and feeding
practices

9. 2.Visit of feed market
• We have visited 2 markets in Salna Bazar

10. Types of available feed
(concentrate)
• Rice husk
• Broken rice
• Rice polish
• Wheat
• Maize
• Feed mixture
• Paragon pellet
• Mustard oil cake
• Dairy cattle feed
price
• 30tk/kg
• 35tk/kg
• 3otk/kg
• 30tk/kg
• 30tk/kg
• 35tk/kg
• 45tk/kg
• 40tk/kg
• 30tk/kg
Type of mostly
demanded feed by
farmers
• Rice husk
• Rice polish
• Feed mixture
• Dairy cattle feed
• Paragon pellet
• Complete feed
• Mustard oil cake
• Maize
• wheat

11. Types of available feed
Feed additives
Name
DCP
Molasses
Salt
Price
80tk/kg
30tk/kg
20tk/kg
More feed additives
• CP vet
• DB
• Mega feed DV
• Zymovet
• Andora
• Andex etc.

12. Problems related to feed market
• Number of farm and livestock is
decreasing so, demand is
reducing.
• Development of garments
reduce farms of livestock so
people are more interested to
do work in garments factories
rather than rearing of livestock.

13. Markets with feeds in
salna

14. SONAIMURI UPAZILA
TOTAL LIVESTOCK POPULATION:
CATTLE: 26102
GOAT:7542
SHEEP:1163
CHICKEN:126000
TOTAL FARMS:
CATTLE FARM: 10167
GOAT FARM:5664
SHEEP FARM:67
CHICKEN FARM:22012

15. CHATMOHAR UPAZILA
TOTAL LIVESTOCK
POPULATION:
CATTLE: 100000
GOAT:86931
SHEEP:5990
CHICKEN:347848
TOTAL FARMS:
CATTLE FARM:100
CHICKEN FARM:400

16. MEHERPUR SADAR
UPAZILA
TOTAL LIVESTOCK
POPULATION:
CATTLE: 55562,
GOAT:102095 ,
SHEEP:1979,
CHICKEN:229863
TOTAL FARMS:
CATTLE FARM: 24863
GOAT FARM:32152
SHEEP FARM:337
CHICKEN FARM:30585

17. TALA UPAZILA
TOTAL LIVESTOCK
POPULATION:
CATTLE: 95616
GOAT:81772
SHEEP:2083
CHICKEN:43575
TOTAL FARMS:
CATTLE FARM:67
CHICKEN FARM:260

18. LAKSHAM UPAZILA
TOTAL LIVESTOCK POPULATION:
CATTLE: 27684
GOAT:11075 ,
SHEEP:731
CHICKEN:193545
TOTAL FARMS:
CATTLE FARM: 62
CHICKEN FARM:39

19. AN AFRICAN PROVERB SAYS THAT