Thrust on promoting food safety in poultry sector

RANGPUR, Nov 01 (BSS): Livestock experts at a workshop have stressed promoting food safety in the poultry sector to produce healthier birds for meeting nutrition needs of the population.

They put importance on ensuring strict monitoring system and providing training and technology to poultry farm owners and common people for accelerating a hygienic growth of the poultry sector.

The experts were addressing the workshop on 'Supporting Government Monitoring System in Poultry Sector' held in the Public Library conference room here on Wednesday.

Rangpur Sadar unit of Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) under its Issue-based Project on Food Safety Governance in Poultry Sector organised the event with the assistance of the Department of Livestock Services and other organisations.

Government and NGO officials, poultry farm owners, poultry feed suppliers, poultry medicine traders, representatives of poultry medicine producers, poultry traders and civil society members participated.

District Livestock Officer Dr Mahbubul Alam attended the workshop as the chief guest with president of Rangpur district unit of CAB Abdur Rahman in the chair.

Poultry Development Officer of the Government Poultry Farm, Rangpur Fazlul Karim and Sadar Upazila Livestock Officer Dr Md Sarwar Hossain delivered presentations as resource persons.

General secretary of Rangpur district unit of CAB Ahsanul Haque Tuhin delivered the welcome speech.

The resource persons discussed technologies for proper rearing and feeding of poultry birds, supplying poultry medicines and poultry feeds, combating diseases, vaccination, taking care of eggs during breeding of chicks and marketing of poultry products.

Dr Sarwar Hossain said 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.