PRESENT STATUS, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECT OF QUAIL FARMING AT BOGURA AND NAOGAON DISTRICT IN BANGLADESH

Abstract

The present study was conducted at Bogura and Naogaon district to assess the potentiality of quail farming in rural areas. A total of 40 quail farm were selected at random basis from the study area. The purpose was to examine the present status, problems and prospects of quail farming. The problems and prospects of quail farming of selected areas were quantified and assessed. Data were collected using a pretested interview schedule from March to June, 2018 to identify problems in rearing quail and to know how much farmers are habituated in using different management technologies. The relevant information that were collected during study period are age, education, main occupation, land holding, training, annual income, number of quail, number of breeds or varieties, types of quail farm, rearing, sources of day old chick, bedding materials, diseases prevalence, mortality, day old chick price, feed price, market age, market weight, FCR, biosecurity, future plan, ventilation and lighting system, use of footbath, vaccination frequencies and marketing channel. Introducing of quail farming, training of quail farmers could increase the quail farming with increased income and employment to youth and small holder marginal farmers. In Bogura and Naogaon district, the quail farmers are mostly middle aged people and they got mostly secondary education level. Overall the biosecurity, vaccination schedule and production level is satisfactory in the represented area. Among the respondents 32.5%, 47.5% and 20% were grouped as young, middle aged and old aged groups respectively. A total of 60% farmers had training on quail farming from NGO and dealers, 15% farmers maintain strict biosecurity, 65% maintain moderate biosecurity and remaining 20% maintained no biosecurity. Among the visited farms 20% farmers practice disinfection process to disinfect their farms while the rest 80% farmers did not practice disinfection process.