BSS, Narsingdi
A number of ultra poor families living in different char villages under Narsingdi Sadar, Raipura and Belabo upazilas of Narsingdi district have been able to change their destitution by rearing ducks, reports BSS.
The inhabitants of char villages are mostly poor as they are losing everything by river erosion. A couple of years ago, the char villagers started rearing ducks on a commercial basis with the determination to change their economic condition. On an average, there are more than 50 ducks in one family and they are earning Taka three to four thousand every month selling eggs and ducks.
Morjina Begum, a housewife of char Alokbali village under Sadar upazila told BSS that she gets on an average of 35 to 40 eggs every day from her pets and currently she is earning Taka over seven thousand every month.
“I’m happy now as I found the path of regular earning through duck farming successfully. My children are now going to school,” she said, adding that there are a number of poor families in different char areas of the district who make their living only rearing ducks.
District Livestock Officer Habibur Rahman said duck farming business has also become a stable employment source here. Many people including poor and marginal unemployed youths are now joining the business of rearing ducks alongside trading of the domestic birds and its eggs and have become economically solvent, he added.
Habibur Rahman mentioned that duck farming is less expensive, simple and commercially viable.
