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Nationwide Livestock Service week begins

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Published: 03:11, 23 February 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Nationwide Livestock Service week begins

Secretariat Correspondent: The Department of Livestock Services (DLS) is observing the Livestock Service Week-2017 for the first time across the country from today (Thursday) to help ensure safe animal protein for people.

At a press briefing on the eve of the day at ministry conference room on Wednesday morning, Fisheries and Livestock Minister Mohammad Sayedul Haq said “The Livestock Service Week is being observed throughout the country from February 23-27for involving more people with the sector as the sector is playing vital role in socio-economic development of the country”.

To mark the week, the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock (MoFL) and the Department of Livestock Services have chalked out different programmes centrally in the capital and district and upazila levels across the country.

The main slogan of the week is -"promise to safe animal protein, for healthy strong genius nation (Nirapad Pranij Amisher Protisruti, Susthya Saval Medabhi Jati)".

Under the programme, colorful rally, seminar, livestock fair, projeni or developed livestock variety display, livestock related essay competition and selection of best livestock entrepreneurs and prize distribution will be held at centrally in the capital.

Besides this, different sorts of programmes including discussion, livestock affairs services, school feeding like egg and milk, livestock related fair and poster and leaflets distribution also will be held at district and upazila level across the country.

Although country's animal protein like milk, meat and egg production has significantly risen for the last couple of years, said the minister, adding but the country has 74.16 lakh tonnes shortage of milk, 9 lakh tonnes meat and 483.16 crore pieces of eggs against the demand of 146.91 lakh tonnes milk, 70.52 lakh tonnes meat and 1674.40 crore pieces of eggs respectively.

Referring to supply of adequate sacrificial animals in the last year, the livestock minister explained that "Country's total sacrificial animals demand in the year of 2016 was met with the indigenous livestock."




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