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MEDIA-SAFE-POULTRY (with picture)
Media role sought to ensure food safety in poultry sector
RANGPUR, Apr 17, 2019 (BSS) – Livestock experts at a workshop today sought
media cooperation to ensure food safety governance in the poultry sector
aiming to produce best quality poultry meat.
They made the call at the workshop styled ‘Role of Mass Media in Ensuring
Food Safety in the Poultry Sector’ held at conference room of the district
office of the Department of Livestock Services (DLS) in the city.
Rangpur unit of Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) under its Issue-
based Project on Food Safety Governance in Poultry Sector Project organised
the workshop with assistance of the DLS and other organisations.
Local journalists from the print and electronic media as well as poultry
farm owners, poultry feed suppliers, poultry medicine traders,
representatives of poultry medicine producers and poultry traders were
present.
District Livestock Officer Dr. Md. Shah Jalal Khandker attended the
workshop as the chief guest with President of Rangpur district unit of CAB
Abdur Rahman in the chair.
Sadar Upazila Livestock Officer Dr Md Sarwar Hossain, Poultry Development
Officer of the Government Poultry Farm at Rangpur Fazlul Karim, General
Secretary of Rangpur district unit of CAB Ahsanul Haque Tuhin and President
of district Poultry Owners’ Association Akbor Hossain addressed the workshop.
In his welcome speech, Abdur Rahman elaborately narrated goals of arranging
the workshop with local journalists to seek their cooperation to ensure
production and marketing of healthier and hygienic poultry birds.
Dr Sarwar Hossain discussed technologies for proper rearing and feeding of
poultry birds, supplying poultry medicines and poultry feeds, combating
diseases, vaccination, caring eggs during breeding of chicks and marketing of
poultry products.
“Currently, the chicken eggs and meat are being produced in the district by
adopting latest scientific technologies and maintaining maximum safety for
human health to meet nutritional demand of the population,” he added.
Dr. Khandker said the private poultry farms are producing over 12 crore
pieces of chicken eggs annually in Rangpur on an average with 30.10 lakh
population having an annual demand of only 3.22 crore pieces of eggs.
“The journalists can play vital role in creating public awareness so that
all stakeholders concerned strictly follows business regulation to promote
safe food governance for accelerating hygienic growth of the poultry sector,”
he added.
BSS/MI/ARS/1632 hrs