The experiment was conducted to investigate the livelihood improvement of farmers through cattle fattening in selected areas (Mymensingh Sadar and Fulbaria Upazilla) in Mymensingh district of Bangladesh through field survey. Total of 30 respondents were randomly selected from the three villages. Each village consists of 10 respondents. Data were collected from randomly selected 30 farmers who were involved in small scale cattle fattening through personal interviews. The selected characteristics were the socio-economic conditions of the farmer such as age, level of education, occupation, household size, land size, source of capital, family income from cattle fattening, farm size, etc. The respondents were aged from 25 to 60 years. The highest proportion (56.7 percent) of farmers was in the middle-aged. The education levels among the respondents were 46.7 percent illiterate, 33.3 percent primary level, 13.3 percent up to S.S.C level and 6.7 percent of H.S.C or above. Among the respondents, 33.3 percent were involved in cattle fattening as primary occupation and 67.3 percent were involved in cattle fattening as a secondary occupation. About 83.3 percent of respondents were used own capital for fattening purpose and 16.7 percent respondents had bank loan or NGO loan facilities for fattening purposes. The income of the respondents' family from cattle was BDT 11283.33 which was contributed 31.39 percent to the increased family income. The results show that cattle fattening could be the most suitable way to increase the socio-economic status of the poor farmers in terms of net income.
The main objective of the study was to define socioeconomic and health status with the context of climate change in the interior coastal region of the Bay of Bengal. There were selected three villages of Dumuria upazila, Khulana, Bangladesh in order to address the objectives. Both secondary data and primary data through participatory approaches e.g. Personal Interviews (15 participants per village) were considered. From the field survey, the stratification of wealth group indicated that the poor groups embodying the largest number of household and the major economic activity among the respondents is agriculture, the most vulnerable sector of climate change are high level of vulnerability of communities in the study area. The local people (64.44% of the respondents) perceived the increase in temperature and precipitation over the 7 years. From the empirical climatic data, there were also observed the fluctuations of humidity and rainfall; temperature trend was also observed that the winter is becoming cooler but the summer is hotter. Therefore, there were also found that the fluctuations of the crops production with seasonal variations. On the context of health concern, nutritional status was found well with adequate food and safe drinking water and also using hygiene sanitation. There were also reported some health problems those are related to climatic phenomenon.
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