Helal Ahmed's Cattle and Buffalo Farm

About

Helal Ahmed's cattle and buffalo farm is on his family's own land in Uttar Charlakkha village, 1.5 km from Moijjartek in Karnafuli upazila, Chattogram. In 2017, after enrolling at Government City College, Chattogram, under National University, he took Tk 1.8 lakh from his mother to buy one buffalo and one cow; a year later he sold them for Tk 4 lakh and bought five Friesian calves. In 2019, on the advice of his father Jalal Ahmad, he built a larger farm on their own land, taking a Tk 5 lakh loan from a private development organisation. In 2022 the farm had 15 cows, 9 buffaloes, 5 bulls and 6 calves, with an annual profit of several lakh taka. During Covid he had to sell milk at Tk 25–30 a litre, and foot-and-mouth disease struck 10 cattle, killing 5. That year he kept 13 cattle for sale at Eid, priced from Tk 80,000 to Tk 1.5 lakh. Three people work on the farm; he plans to keep several hundred cattle and buffaloes, employ at least 10 more people and build a biogas plant.

Products and services

• Eid sacrificial cattle

  Tk 80,000–1,50,000 / each

  13 cattle kept for sale at Eid 2022

• Cow's milk

Prices as given by the owner; ask before you buy.

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