The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Rajshahi

The 6 Cavalry Battalion of Bangladesh Army has taken up 'Four Cow Rearing Projects' with special emphasis on motivating the mid-level families towards becoming self-reliant.

Talking to BSS here today, Second-in-Command of the battalion Major Kawser Ahmed said the main objective of these projects is to offer a scope to such families, encouraging them to become self-reliant for a decent living. The major outcomes of such projects will be milk, meat, organic fertiliser, bio-gas plants and self-employment. Besides, he said, each farm will rear four milching cows to establish small dairy farms.

Concerned government organisations working at the field level are being motivated to assist the target families to develop confidence among themselves, so they eventually become small scale business community in their respective areas. To make this effort a success, a series of views-exchange sessions were held with the lending agencies, local Administration and NGOs for reducing the gap between these organisations and the targeted families willing to take up this venture.