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Impact of Research and Extension Services on Awareness, Production and Consumption of Livestock Products and By-products in Bangladesh

Dr. Jahangir Alam
CSO
Socio-Econ Res Div, BLRI

Dr. S M Ataur Rahman
SSO
Socio-Econ Res Div, BLRI

DR. M. AKTERUZZAMAN
Professor
Dept. of Agrl. Economics, BAU

DR. M. A. MONAYEM MIAH
SSO
Agrl. Econ Div, BARI

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

About half of the respondents were engaged in agriculture for securing their livelihood with the farm size of about 139 decimals. Only about 10 per cent of the respondents had received training. The average annual household income was about Tk. 106645. The contribution of the crop sector was estimated to be 37.62 per cent followed by livestock (13.41 per cent) to the total annual income. The problems in relation to adoption of livestock and poultry technologies were: lack of capital, lack of quality breed, and high price of breed, etc. The investment made for the livestock and poultry research and extension program was found to be very efficient in terms of higher IRR and NPV. Sensitivity analysis revealed that the IRR of the program were ranging from 41.46% to 52.16% under various assumptions of the benefits derived from the research and extension expenditures in goat rearing. The development of IBD vaccine is extremely attractive. The parameters used for analysis were extremely conservative and returns as measured by IRR (243%) and BCR (80.5) are very high. The total net present value of the project is Tk. 444.5 million.

Keywords: Livestock, Research, Extension, Production, Consumption, Awareness, Poultry.

Location: Six administrative divisions, namely Dhaka, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal,

Start Date: 01-07-2007

End Date: 30-06-2008

Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Non-commodity: Impact

Objectives:

a) To determine the mass awareness of the livestock technologies developed by BLRI through research and extension in rural and urban areas of Bangladesh.

b) To determine the level of livestock production and their products and by-products in rural and urban areas of Bangladesh.

c) To determine the consumption pattern of livestock products like milk, meat and eggs in rural and urban areas of Bangladesh.

d) To assess the benefit derived from livestock research and extension in the economy.

e) To make some future policy guidelines for livestock development in Bangladesh.

Methodology:

Comparing the present situation for project beneficiaries with the before-project situation for the same beneficiaries and comparing present situation of project beneficiaries with a similar group of non-project respondents. Both the primary and secondary data were used in study. A multi-stage stratified random sampling was followed for collection of primary data from the field. In order to fulfil the study objectives, a household interview schedule was carefully prepared to collect the required data. The primary data was collected by direct interview schedule. The interview schedule was pre-designed and pre- tested. After pre-testing, necessary corrections, modifications and adjustments were made and thus, final schedule was prepared for data collection. The survey was confined during January- April 2008 by appointing the field investigators that were recruited as daily basis. Economic surplus has been used to measure economic welfare and the changes in economic welfare from policy and other interventions.

Source of Information: BLRI, Annual Research Review Workshop, BLRI, Savar, Dhaka.

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Funding Source:

1. United States Agency for International Development

Budget: 5.50 lac

Total Budget (Tk.) : 5.50 lac

Achievement/Findings:

The Study found that among various meats, the respondent households consumed poultry meat at a rate of 3.29kg per month. The households consumed more of the livestock and poultry products and by-products after the adoption of new technologies than that of the pre-knowledge situation about livestock research and extension services. The study estimates the socioeconomic returns to the past investment on the research and extension of PPR vaccine for goat production, AI in cattle improvement and breeding program and IBD vaccine for commercial poultry sector in Bangladesh.

Knowledge Management: Report/Proceedings