Abstract
A survey was conducted in the three district of south western region of Bangladesh like Khulna, Satkhira and Bagerhat, to observe the socioeconomic condition and problems facing by the chicken farmers under the existing management practices. Five hundred commercial chicken farms were considered in the present study. Data were collected using a pretested questionnaire by interview of the farmers. To observe the socioeconomic conditions, the age of selected farmers, their gender, occupation, education level, land size, annual income from chicken farms, experience, training exposure and bio-security score were considered. There are two problems are categorized like diseases outbreaks and socioeconomic problems. Among the respondents, maximum percentage of farmers were male groups within 31 to 40 years age had conjugated with the occupation of poultry and agriculture and belonged to HSC level of education. Highest percentage of medium land size farmer earned 01-03 lac BDT per year only from the chicken farms. Newcastle or Ranikhet disease was highly severed followed by Fowl cholera, Gumboro and Coccidiosis. Irregular fluctuation of market price was the major problem facing by the chicken farmer in the study area. Bio-security practice and proper marketing system should enhance the profitability of the chicken farms.
 Asian J. Med. Biol. Res. September 2020, 6(3): 507-513
Highlights
The poultry industry of Bangladesh primarily produces chicken a few other species like duck, pigeon, quail, goose, turkey, and guinea fowl are available throughout the year
Gender, education status, occupation, land size and yearly income from poultry farms were considered as farmer’s criteria and every criterion was divided into different categories
The result from this study showed that Newcastle disease (ND) was the highly severe (64.2%) diseases observed by the poultry farmers
Summary
The poultry industry of Bangladesh primarily produces chicken a few other species like duck, pigeon, quail, goose, turkey, and guinea fowl are available throughout the year. The poultry sector in Bangladesh has gained sufficiency against the current market demand (Raha, 2013), but not against the standard nutritional requirement (DLS, 2016). Starting from the 1980s the industrial poultry sector gained massive momentum towards the industrial phase. After that, it gained a significant annual average growth rate, approximately 15 - 20% annually, until the outbreak of avian flu in 2007. After 2015, this industry again attained the capacity to fulfill the domestic demand for broiler, edible eggs, parent stocks, and precooked poultry products. Production, availability, and deficiency of meat and eggs in the years 2015 and 2016 shows that production of meat and egg was found to be lacking 0.9 million metric ton (MMT) and 4,831.6 million (Khaled, 2015; DLS, 2016).
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