From: Auvijit Saha Apu Assistant Professor Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics Bangladesh Agricultural University Bangladesh Dear All, Thanks a lot to the moderators for arranging the e-conference in the present issue. I would like to contribute in the theme of week 3 in the following way: 1. Women empowerment through sustainable family poultry development. Development of family poultry makes a significant contribution to the women’s empowerment. Women usually rear family poultry as a source of extra income which can contribute to maintain their family. Sometimes selling of eggs help them to bear the educational expenses of their children or buy daily necessities. As the women can contribute to the family, so, her contribution in the decision making in the family increased. Besides the rearing of poultry, a large number of women vaccinators were trained by the NGOs to gear up and monitoring the activities of poultry rearing, vaccination and build up awareness among the mass people of Bangladesh to the grass root level where it is not possible to reach by the govt. staffs. According to the documentation of the work in BDGP01 of SAPPLPP (2009) (www.sapplpp.org), the following contributions of women were observed: Ø 19,900 trained women vaccinators got a sources of extra income from vaccination Ø Reaching out to over 2.47 million women poultry rearers in all districts of Bangladesh. Ø Poultry mortality reduced from 21.3% to 7.6% in just one year. Ø Annual income of poultry rearers between Tk 400 to Tk 2919. Ø Family consumption of eggs raised from 43 to 186 and meat from 1.6 kg to 16.7 kg per year (SA PPLPP, 2009) However, being a poultry vaccinator not only provides self employment opportunity but also generates community respect, empowerment, self confidence and dignity among the women involved. Furthermore, money in hands of women tends to also bring educational and nutritional benefits to children. But some rconstraints for contribution of family poultry to women empowerment also revealed that there need training and also the transfer the technologies in time to the hand of the women poultry rearers because they are mostly remain out of network especially in developing countries. Disease is one of the major constraints for family poultry, so effective vaccination measures should be ensured. Moreover, development of marketing system will encourage them to rear more number of chickens and get actual price and become profitable. From my experience, I observed that family poultry development have no negative impact rather have significant positive effect. Women and sometimes their children remain in charge of taking care of them. Moreover, as they rear scavenging chicken, they need less attention and it does not increase their workload anymore. From the reports of the past projects implemented in Bangladesh showed that family poultry rearing had a significant positive impact on increase family income and women’s empowerment. So, to promote family poultry, holistic approach should be taken and there interested farmers who wish to rear family poultry should be selected irrespective of gender, cast or class. 1. Influencing policy for family poultry. Though a lot of discussion is in the ground and research have been done in the recent days but attention in family poultry development in the current poultry development policies is still low. Moreover, the implementation of the policies is very much slower beyond the expectation. So, specific issues should be included in the policies to promote the family poultry in the households and gear up and monitor time to time for its effective implementation. Thanks and Best regards Auvijit ________________________________ From: Funso Sonaiya <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Friday, 15 June 2012, 19:48 Subject: Last Day of conference! Dear Participants, Today is the last day of this conference. I am inviting all participants to send in their thoughts on any of the topics we have been discussing so that they may be included in the outcome of this conference. This is a call especially to participants who have not sent in any messages. Please make the messages brief and to the point. Do not ask for personal answers or request for CDs, papers, etc in your message to all participants. Please send such personal requests directly to the concerned participant. 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