Livestock and poultry is an integral component of agricultural economy of Bangladesh performing multifarious functions such as provision of food, nutrition, income, savings, draft power, manure, transport, social and cultural functions. About 75% of the population relies to some degree on livestock for their livelihood specially the landless farmers. Infants, adolescents and elderly people live on milk to a greater extent majority of which is imported from abroad a the cost of hard earned foreign currency. The current contribution of livestock sub-sector to overall GDP is about 2.73% which is...
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