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Govt to open control room soon to resolve crisis in livestock sector
DHAKA, April 02, 2020 (BSS) – The government has decided to introduce a control room to address the ongoing crisis broke out in the country’s livestock sector due to coronavirus outbreak.
The Fisheries and Livestock Ministry took the decision at a view-exchange meeting with the stakeholders concerned held at the conference room of the Livestock Services Department here today.
The control room will be set up at the Department of Livestock Services in the city’s Farm Gate area and it will be introduced on Saturday (April 4), an official press release said.
Involving the officials from the Fisheries and Livestock Ministry, the Department of Livestock Services and the Fisheries Department, the control room will remain open from 9 am to 5 pm every day.
Immediate measures will be taken to ensure production, supply and marketing of poultry products, milk and milk products, meats and fisheries resources through the hotline of the control room, the release added.
In addition, the ministry decided to launch awareness campaign to prevent rumours about dairy and poultry products amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The meeting also decided to take short-, medium- and long-term plans to resolve the ongoing crisis of livestock sector.
Chaired by Fisheries and Livestock secretary Rawnak Mahmud, the meeting was attended, among others, by additional secretary of the ministry Kazi Wasi Uddin, deputy Dr Amitavo Chakrabartty and director general of the Livestock Services Department Dr Abdul Jabbar.
In a statement yesterday, Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim said as per the suggestion of the World Health Organization (WHO), people have to take nutritious food to increase the capacity of the human bodies’ immune system to prevent coronavirus.
So, he said, the Fisheries and Livestock Ministry has taken various measures to ensure normal supply of the sources of protein – milk, eggs, fishes and meat – to tackle the ongoing crisis.
The minister said his ministry has already sent letters to the deputy commissioners, the home ministry and the cabinet division asking to take steps to ensure production, supply and marketing of poultry products, milk and milk products, meats and fisheries resources.
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