Brahma showing hope for Cattle Farmers

BRAHMA is a new breed of cow which has very high growth rate and is famous for the amount of meat one bull can provide. The breed comes from USA and one matured bull weighs as high as 800 kgs. The semen of this high growth breed was given to local cow farmers of Pabna in FY 2016-2017 and until FY 2018-2019 a total of 40 local variety cow have been given AI among which 24 cows conceived successfully. Shahanara Khatun is one of the farmers whose cow was successfully conceived and in June 2017 the cow gave birth of a male calf and its weight was 21 kgs. Shahanara used all modern calf rearing techniques and after five months the calf weighed 70 kg and she sold that for BDT 95,000. The project technical person said that this breed has high resistance of diseases comparing to other foreign breeds. If this breed is successfully introduced in farmers level then the demand of meat would be mitigated very easily.