Sheep rearing changes local’s fortune in Rangpur Abdur Rahman Mintu, Rangpur Sheep rearing has changed the financial condition of a good number of extreme poor people living in different areas under Rangpur district. Thousands of extreme poor families of the region including different char areas have found the way to change their economic condition through sheep rearing. Baby Begum, a sheep rearer of Pramanikpara village at Taraganjupazila told tnnthat she had been passing her days in extreme poverty 11 years ago. Her husband was a day labourer. She had to face difficulties in maintaining her family with the paltry amount of income of her husband. With the aim to salvage their impoverished family she began rearing of sheep in 2013. Thus she found the way to contribute significantly to her family income. During last 10 years she sold some 150 sheep. Last year, she earned over one lakh ten thousand taka by selling 21 sheep, she also said. She spent the money for constructing a tin-shed house and also bought her husband a battery-run rickshaw, she added. Encouraged by Baby, many other rural vulnerable women at different villages under the upazila have changed their lot by rearing sheep, she said. Halima Begum (50), a sheep rearer at palichara area under RangpurSadarupazila told The Financial Express, she first started rearing with only 2 sheep. “I had been passing hard days in acute poverty after being deserted by my husband 9 years ago, who married to another woman. After struggling for few years I began sheep rearing taking financial help from some of my relatives and thus found the way to get rid of extreme poverty”, Halima also said. So far she has sold some 40 sheep and presently, she has more than 30 sheep, she added. Kashem Mia, a sheep rearer at Char Nazirdaho village under Kauniaupazila said, he first started sheep rearing around 14 years before. Since then he has been rearing sheep and earning satisfactory profit. So far he sold some 100 sheep and now he has 30 sheep. He spent around Tk 50,000 at his daughter’s marriage last year which he earned from the sale of sheep, he added.

8 Mar 2024, 12:00 am0

Sheep rearing changes local's fortune in Rangpur Abdur Rahman Mintu, Rangpur Sheep rearing has changed the financial condition of a good number of extreme poor people living in different areas under Rangpur district. Thousands of extreme poor families of the region including different char areas have found the way to change their economic condition through sheep rearing. Baby Begum, a sheep rearer of Pramanikpara village at Taraganjupazila told tnnthat she had been passing her days in extreme poverty 11 years ago. Her husband was a day labourer. She had to face difficulties in maintaining her family with the paltry amount of income of her husband. With the aim to salvage their impoverished family she began rearing of sheep in 2013. Thus she found the way to contribute significantly to her family income. During last 10 years she sold some 150 sheep. Last year, she earned over one lakh ten thousand taka by selling 21 sheep, she also said. She spent the money for constructing a tin-shed house and also bought her husband a battery-run rickshaw, she added. Encouraged by Baby, many other rural vulnerable women at different villages under the upazila have changed their lot by rearing sheep, she said. Halima Begum (50), a sheep rearer at palichara area under RangpurSadarupazila told The Financial Express, she first started rearing with only 2 sheep. "I had been passing hard days in acute poverty after being deserted by my husband 9 years ago, who married to another woman. After struggling for few years I began sheep rearing taking financial help from some of my relatives and thus found the way to get rid of extreme poverty", Halima also said. So far she has sold some 40 sheep and presently, she has more than 30 sheep, she added. Kashem Mia, a sheep rearer at Char Nazirdaho village under Kauniaupazila said, he first started sheep rearing around 14 years before. Since then he has been rearing sheep and earning satisfactory profit. So far he sold some 100 sheep and now he has 30 sheep. He spent around Tk 50,000 at his daughter's marriage last year which he earned from the sale of sheep, he added.