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Second FAO Electronic Conference on Tropical Feeds
Livestock Feed Resources within Integrated Farming Systems
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Abstract of twenty fifth paper, from Md.A. Saleque and Shams Mustafa.

Questions that might stimulate discussion on this topic
include:

1. Does poultry play a key role among the poor in your country?

2. Is feed a major constraint for developing this sector? How do
farmers make use of local feed resources for poultry? How do
local feed resources compete with commercial compound feeds?

3. Are there proper mechanisms, as those developed by BRAC in
Bangladesh, that have permitted major achievements in the poultry
sector to the benefit of the rural poor in your country? If not,
what are the constraints impeding the development of such
mechanisms?

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LANDLESS WOMEN AND POULTRY: THE BRAC MODEL IN BANGLADESH (1)

Md.A. Saleque and Shams Mustafa

Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), 66, Mohakhali,
Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh. Fax: +880 2 883542.
E-mail: brac@drik.bgd.toolnet.org

(1) This paper was first presented at the Development Workers'
Course: Integrated Farming in Human Development! March 25 - 29,
1996 at Coursecenter Tune Landboskole, Greve, Denmark.

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ABSTRACT

On the background of the extreme poverty, most women of rural,
landless households are subjected to in Bangladesh, an outline is
provided of Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee and the
evolution, which led to its present poultry development model.
The model is exclusively targeted at landless women and builds on
GO-NGO collaboration. It involves women in a chain of activities
as vaccinators, hatchery operators, chicken rearers, feed
sellers, producers of hatching eggs and as producers of eggs for
the market. Credit as well as marketing are integrated into the
model. A recent survey has reported considerable positive impact
both in terms of income and producer household egg and meat
consumption. It is concluded that poor rural women can contribute
to economic development as buyers and sellers of goods and
services, by contributing to improved household income, and - as
important - in the process their own self esteem is heightened.

KEY WORDS: Landless women, rural poultry, poultry development,
BRAC, GO-NGO collaboration, impact

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