Khairul Islam's Fish, Poultry and Cattle Farm

About

Khairul Islam (44) runs a farm on 40 bighas at the foot of the hills in the Thandachhari area of Ward 1, South Pahartali, Chattogram City Corporation. Around 2000 he ran a tea stall in Thandachhari and, as a hobby, began fish farming and poultry rearing on his ancestral land, later renting more land with ponds. In the first year he sold Tk 66,000 worth of fish. Today his ponds hold pangas, shing, koi, bata and carp, his sheds hold hundreds of broiler and layer chickens, and he raises cattle that graze on the surrounding hills, selling most at Eid-ul-Azha (Tk 30 lakh worth at the last Eid). He sells over Tk 1.5 crore of fish, chicken and cattle a year, with a profit of about Tk 30–35 lakh. The farm has 20 staff paid Tk 8,000 to 20,000. After the 2007 landslide wiped out Tk 22 lakh worth of chickens, the pond fish and more than 50 cattle, he rebuilt. He was named Chattogram district's successful fish farmer at National Fisheries Week in 2018 and a successful fish farmer at thana level in 2014. Unemployed young people regularly come to him for advice on starting farms.

Products and services

• Pangas fish

• Shing fish

• Koi fish

• Bata fish

• Carp

• Broiler and layer chickens

• Eid sacrificial cattle

  Grazed on the hills

Address and hours

To learn or to work here

• Gives advice

• Visitors welcome