A poor couple now successful in their lives made a mini dairy farm on a rented plot of land and selling milk has been maintaining their family for thirty years at the west deobhog area under Sadar Upazila in the district.
Both the husband and wife had no academic education, even trained on cow rearing, hence they became successful in this sector. They began rearing only a cow and now reached at the number of seven cow calves.
Once Nur Islam was carpenter and when he found that he became unfit in that profession he turns to cow rearing.
The couple Nur Islam and his wife Sharifa begum have a son two daughters and grandsons. Nine members of the family have been running based on cow’s milk selling money.
There is no alternative income of Nur Islam family members even has no a piece of land where can live making houses. Landless Nur Islam lives and rearing cows in a rented land plot. He has to pay fifteen thousand taka to the land owner in a year.
He has seven cattle of which two provide milk 28 litres in a day. He and his wife aged around 65 years have to sell milk door to door and thus income to maintain cattle feed and his family.
Lone son Suruzzaman and daughters are engaged with work of cows rearing their parents as their lives are made better than now.
Cow rearing Nur Islam told the Bangladesh Post that he is burdened with family members as well as treatment cost of his cows. If the treatment facility is provided by the Government physician it will become easier than now. Asking the help to the Government Nur Islam said that if his cows became a registered dairy farm status and then he will able facilities from the government. At the same voice Nur Islam urged a land plot from the Prime the government as he both lives and rearing cows for his family living. But illiterate Nur Islam does not know how to apply to the government for his necessary help.
All the family members are engaged with cow rearing. Someone engaged in grass cutting, someone rearing and others are selling milk.
Mini dairy farm owner, this couple deserves registration of their cows as a dairy farm and so that he might receive any facility from the district livestock office, even a treatment facility.
Though the cows owner is a poor man, when his cattle become sick he has to call a private vet physician and pay fees.District livestock officer Bashona Akter said that if any cow rearing man has 3-5 cows then his cows would be registered as a dairy firm following the process. She added that there are three thousand and five hundred registered dairy farms in Narayanganj.
It is mentioned that the number of vet physicians is less than dairy farms so the majority of mini farms owners took treatment of their cattle by non-government organization quack who are not vet physicians.
