Identification of Hormone Use Pattern in Beef Fattening in Southwest Coastal Regions of Bangladesh

ABSTRACT

The study was conducted to identify of hormone use pattern in beef fattening program in three upazilas under three different districts of Bangladesh. Data were collected from ninety (90) respondents involved in cattle farming through survey questionnaire. Socio-economic characteristics of the respondents (cattle farmers) were studied. The results indicated that, the majority (61.1%) of the respondents was middle aged, 21.1% old aged and 17.8% was young aged. The average age of the respondents in the studied area was 41.46±12.734. In case of the level of education of the respondents, 46.7% had secondary level of education, followed by   graduate or above (15.6%), illiterate (12.2%), primary (12.2%), higher secondary (11.1%), and 2.2% sing up only. The majority (66.7%) of the respondents belonged to joined family and 33.3% of the respondents had nuclear family. It was found that, only 8.9% of the respondents belong to livestock, 30% mixed agriculture, 33.3% was agriculture and livestock, 10% business and livestock, 6.7% agriculture and business or livestock, 3.3% was day laborer and livestock, 2.2% livestock farmers and service and 2.2% had integrated occupation of livestock, fisheries and business and rest 1.1% belong to others occupations. The majority (57.8%) of the respondents belonged to high income group followed by medium (26.7%) and low annual income group (15.6%). The average annual income of the respondents was BDTk. 2,32,333.33±1,84,385.10. About 18.9% of the respondents had marginal farm size, 24.4% small, 8.9% landless, 27.8% medium and 20% had high sized farms. The respondents had average farm sized of 113.11±92.180 decimal/farm family. The average farming experience of the respondents of Dumuria upazila was higher than other upazilas under study (about 19.5 years). The average cattle farming experience of the respondents of Tala upazila was higher than other upazilas (about 18 year). About 21.1% of the respondents had no farming experience and 53.3% had long term experience of farming. Majority of the respondents (48.9%) long term experience in cattle farming followed by medium (32.2%) and short-term experience on cattle farming (18.9%). The respondents had average 14.60±10.013 years of cattle farming experience. Majority (64.4%) of the respondents belonged to high annual income from cattle rearing group followed by medium annual income group from cattle (23.3%) and low income ((10.0%). The average annual income from cattle was 99,722.22±86216.872. Most of the farmers (86.7%) had not participated any organization on beef fattening and rest 13.3% had participated. Average 58.9% of the farmers took no training on beef fattening and 41.1% had taken short-term training on beef fattening. Majority of the respondents (87.8%) had medium knowledge about cattle rearing, 3.3% had low, and 8.9% had high knowledge.

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