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BAU Correspondent, Mymensingh

The speakers at a workshop stressed the need for developing dairy breeding using the germplasm of Red Chittagong Cattle (RCC) in the existing feeding and management practices of Bangladesh.

The daylong workshop billed' Characterisation, conservation and Improvement of Red Chittagong Cattle' was held at the Bangladesh Agricultural University(BAU) arranged by the faculty of Animal Husbandry of BAU with the cooperation of USDA.

Secretary of the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock Syed Ataur Rahman attended the work as the chief guest while Prof. Ma Sattar Mondol, vice-chairman of the BAU was present as the chief patron at the workshop.

Presided Over by Prof. Md. Shahid Ullah Talukder, director of BAU Research System, the workshop was attended, among others, by Md. Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, Additional Secretary of the Economic Relations Division of the Finance Ministry, Ad Spijkers, FAO Representative in Bangladesh, Theophil Hajong, Operation Director of World Vision Bangladesh.

A keynote paper was presented by Prof. A K Fazlul Haque Bhuiyan, Principal Investigator, USDA funded RCC project of BAU.

The speakers said biodiversity for ensuring food security is a national and a global mandate as well.

Conservation and development of an endemic but appropriate breed like RCC would ensure maintenance of sustainable animal production for the livelihood of rural people, they observed.