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Crop-livestock Interaction in Rural Household of Bangladesh

Muhammad Shahinur Islam
Department of Animal Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh and Foreign Exchange Policy Department, Bangladesh Bank, Head office, Dhaka, Bangladesh

M. A. Hashem
Department of Animal Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh

Sadikul Islam
Department of Animal Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh and Government Poultry Farm, Department of Livestock Services, South Chartha, Cumilla, Bangladesh

Md Hasanur Alam
Department of Animal Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh

Md. Akteruzzaman
Department of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

This study examined the crop-livestock interaction in agrarian zone of Bangladesh. Quantitative data were collected with a questionnaire from a sample of randomly selected 458 respondents through personal interview. Two categories of respondent participated, such as old conservational agriculture research or farmer group and new conservational agriculture research or farmer group. Simple and direct questions with different scales were used to obtain necessary information. Data were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The result showed that 54.15% of the farmers were range between 31 and 35 years of age, and their educational level was mainly in primary level (31.66%) in all categories. The farmer’s family usually consist of more than six family members (42.58%). In rural households, farmers used both own and lease land for crops production. Crops grown within the study area includes rice, wheat, jute, pulses, oilseeds, maize, vegetables etc. Livestock reared by respondents included cattle, buffaloes, sheep and goat, while their wives and children rear local chicken, duck and pigeon. Among annual household income crop provides 59.88% whereas livestock provides 13.23%. Extension services in the study areas of agricultural production should be provided in order to increase their level of production and greater crop-livestock interaction.

Keywords: Conservational, Crop, Household, Interaction, Livestock.

Location: Rajshahi; Mymensingh; Rajbari, and Thakurgoan regions in Bangladesh

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Program Area: Farming System

Commodity: Agriculture, Livestock, Socio-economic status

Objectives:

The objectives of this study was to identify crop and livestock interaction in the study area of Bangladesh and the aim was to give an overview on overall scenario of crop-livestock integration in Bangladesh for making a long term planning for improving existence farming systems.

Methodology:

Study Locations: The study covered a range of soils and cropping systems in: Rajshahi; Mymensingh; Rajbari, and Thakurgoan regions in Bangladesh. Source of Data: Data and information were gathered through focus group discussion (FGD), household survey, and case studies. Focus group were consisted of different sections of people such as Sub-assistant Agricultural Officer, 2- wheel power tiller, machinery and spare parts sellers, owners, operators, and few conscious local community people. On the other hand, quantitative and qualitative data and information were gathered from the randomly selected users and service providers of machineries through conducting a household survey using pre-tested interview schedules, some suitable case studies of successful service providers were also conducted to supplement the study. Sampling Technique: A multi-stage stratified sampling adopted in the study. Firstly, districts (such as Thakurgaon, Rajshahi, Rajbari and Mymensingh) were selected considering the soil type and cropping systems. Secondly, the households were selected considering the level of adoption of conservational agriculture (CA) through FGD. Thirdly, the households were categorized by cropping systems mostly rice based pulses or oilseed cropping systems. Thus, a total of 458 farms were selected followed by a field reconnaissance and key informants’ interview with different stakeholders for the study. Methods and Period of Data Collection: For collecting the necessary data, the study team explained to respondents the aims and objectives of the study before going to make the actual interview. The respondents were assured that the information given by them would not be used against their interest and that it would be useful to their households in many respects. Interviewees were requested to give correct information as far as possible. To ensure the quality of information the interview schedule was checked to ensure that information to each of the items had been correctly recorded. If there were any items overlooked and misunderstood or found contradictory, these were corrected through re-interviewing on the spot. Data Processing and Analysis: All the collected data were processed and analyzed in accordance with the objectives of the study. Data processing included field and office editing, coding and tabulation. The data entry template was designed in Microsoft Excel. Consistency checks and keystroke errors were also detected and corrected accordingly before data analysis. The analysis was done using descriptive statistics like percentage, frequency distribution, mean, and rank where appropriate

Source of Information: Acta Scientifica Malaysia (ASM) 4(2) (2020) 51-56

Article Link (Online Journal): DOI: http://doi.org/10.26480/asm.02.2020.51.56

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Achievement/Findings:

Based on the empirical findings through survey, FGD, personal interviewing, key informants’ interviewing and field observations some concluding remarks are made. In the crop-livestock integrated area farmers were usually in middle age having a family with more than 6 members and most of the farmers were illiterate. Agriculture was their main occupation and farmers produce crops along with livestock species. In crop-livestock interaction areas, livestock mainly used for income generation while some of farmers used livestock manure for composting to make land fertile. Thus the profit form livestock become the investment for crop production and vice versa. In this way there are always an interaction between crop and livestock in Bangladesh.

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