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Rabbit Farming for Nutrition and Poverty Alleviation of Destitute Women.

Abidur Reza
Professor
Department of Animal Nutrition, BAU, Mymensingh-2202

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The project was undertaken to monitor the sustainability and further extend the activities of the previous project. As such a new rabbitary was established with 30 rabbits collected from the department of animal nutrition. The rabbits were multiplied for distribution among the target people and to slaughter for panel demonstration of meat. A group of 20 destitute women in Muktagacha Upazila and 10 destitute adibasi women in Madhupur forest were selected with the help of JNDP and MCC respectively. The selected women were given one day training on rabbit husbandry. A pair of rabbit was given to each of the selected women on contract basis. Meat from 22 slaughtered rabbit were used in a panel demonstration organized in Muktagacha BADC farm with the help of JNDP. One hundred and twenty four people of both sexes and different ages including rabbit farmers, teachers, students, government officials, NGO representatives, reporters took part in the panel demonstration of rabbit meat. After eating meat with rice the participants expressed their views in an evaluation sheet. Rabbit meat was graded excellent, good and acceptable by 60.86%, 30.43% and 8.60% of the participants respectively. Moreover, 89.13% of the participants expressed their desire to include rabbit meat in their regular menu if available in the market. Experiment carried out for developing feeding technology for farmers showed that rabbit can better utilize poultry pellets available in the market with no wastage than conventional concentrate mixtures. The FCR value is higher in case of pellets than concentrate mixture.

Keywords: Rabbit farming, Poverty alleviation, Destitute women, Meat

Location: Muktagacha and Madhupur Upazila

Start Date: 01-07-2005

End Date: 30-06-2006

Program Area: Farming System

Commodity: Rabbit, Rabbit

Objectives:

1. To popularize rabbit meat and rabbit farming for income generation, 2. To develop appropriate technology of production in rural areas, 3. To assess the socio-economic impact of rabbit farming.

Methodology:

1. Food consumption 2. Assets endowment 3. Living standard level 4. Savings of the farmers increased after rabbit rearing

Source of Information: BAU. Bangladesh Agricultural University Research Progress. Proceedings of the workshop 15-16 January 2005. Bangladesh Agricultural University Research System (BAURES), Mymensingh, Bangladesh.

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Achievement/Findings:

Experiment carried out that Rabbit rearing may be adopted for poverty reduction and better nutrition.

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