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A beekeeper in Sharsha, Jashore, in a Bangla Tribune report
Agriculture & farmingJashore
Beekeeping since 2007, now about 250 colonies. Each box yields around 2 kg of honey per collection, and after all costs the year brings 2.5 to 3 lakh taka.
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A poultry farmer in Mahadevpur, Naogaon, in a Prothom Alo report
Agriculture & farmingNaogaon
He fenced off his own yard and began with 300 chicks bought for 15,000 taka. Seven years on, about 40 lakh taka is tied up in the farm and it earns around 8 lakh a year.
A duck farmer in Tarash, Sirajganj, in a Prothom Alo report
Agriculture & farmingSirajganj
Twenty years of duck rearing. He is raising 400 ducklings bought at 26 taka each, sells eggs to hatcheries at 11-12 taka, and recently sold 200 ducks for 70,000 taka.
A college student running a quail farm in Gopalganj, in an Ajker Patrika report
Agriculture & farmingGopalganj
He started with 35,000 taka saved from freelancing and 500 quail chicks, losing about half of it for want of training. The farm now holds 1,500 birds and 900 eggs a day, leaving 50,000-60,000 taka a month after costs.
A former layer-farm owner in Kishoreganj, in a Samakal report
Agriculture & farmingKishoreganj
A 300-bird layer farm gave 290 eggs a day at 10 taka each, about 2,900 taka of daily income. Bird flu killed 100 hens; he sold the remaining 200 and closed, putting the loss at about a lakh taka.
A turkey farmer in Sreepur, Gazipur, in a Business Standard Bangla report
Agriculture & farmingGazipur
The farm opened in early 2019 with about 250,000 taka and 70 chicks, selling 40-50 hatching eggs a week at 400 taka a dozen. The only buyers were people starting turkey farms, and it closed in February 2020.
A sheep farmer in Taraganj, Rangpur, in a Prothom Alo report
Agriculture & farmingRangpur
Five sheep bought for 17,000 taka in February 2017 with money from selling rice became 13 in the first year and 90 now, earning about 30,000 taka a month after costs.
A buffalo farmer in Kaharole, Dinajpur, in a Prothom Alo report
Agriculture & farmingDinajpur
He began in 2016 with 13 local cattle. The farm now holds 45 cattle and 52 Indian crossbred buffaloes on 107 decimals, selling on a three-month cycle at a minimum of 70,000 to 1 lakh taka a buffalo.
A goat farmer in Sharsha, Jashore, in a bdnews24.com Bangla report
Agriculture & farmingJashore
Four goats bought for 20,000 taka in 2012 sold for 40,000 within a year. The herd is now 300 goats of four breeds, worth about 15 lakh taka.
A woman running a dairy farm in Begumganj, Noakhali, in a Prothom Alo report
Agriculture & farmingNoakhali
A pair of gold earrings sold for 50,000 taka bought one Friesian cow nearly two decades ago. The herd is now 60 head giving 200 litres a day and about a lakh taka a month after costs, yet a flood killed 15 animals and brought 1,000 taka of assistance.
A cattle farmer in Taraganj, Rangpur, in a Prothom Alo report
Agriculture & farmingRangpur
Over two years this one bull ate more than 200,000 taka of bought feed and still costs 500-600 taka a day. It did not sell at the Eid haat.
A fish hatchery owner in Subarnachar, Noakhali, in a Prothom Alo report
Agriculture & farmingNoakhali
He started in 2012 on 20 decimals of inherited land with a 20,000-taka NGO loan. Seventeen hatcheries over 15 acres now produce 1 to 1.5 crore renu and fry a year, leaving about 10 lakh taka of net income.