The Livestock Services Week and Exhibition-2024 has started at Sadullapurupazila town in the district as elsewhere in the country on Thursday with the theme “pranisompodebhorbodesh, Gorbo Smart Bangladesh”.

Marking the week, upazila livestock office and veterinary hospital has arranged the elaborate programmes in cooperation with Livestock and Dairy Development Project under the Fisheries and Livestock Ministry.

In the morning around 11 AM, a discussion meeting and prize distribution function was also held on hospital premises with  UNOKawsar Habib in the chair.

Upazila livestock officer Dr. Sirajul Islam, upazila agriculture officer MatiulAlam, assistant commissioner (Land) Md. Asaduzzamanaddressed the function as focal persons.

The function was also addressed among others by president of upazilaAwami League Abdul JalilSarker, journalist Tajul Islam Reza and young entrepreneur Golam Kibria while veterinary surgeon Dr. AbdullahelKafi moderated the ceremony.

The speakers in their speeches underscored the need for flourishing the livestock sector further to meet the local demand of the protein.

In this context, they emphasized for creating more entrepreneurs in the upazila to turn livestock farming into social movement to make the farming popular to the youths, they also said.

Upazila livestock officer Dr. Sirajul Islam said some 29 stalls had been set up in the exhibition to display the varieties of livestock of the upazila.

People can visit the exhibition during 10:00 am to 8:00pm as the exhibition will continue two days in the capital and five days in the upazila level, he said adding that no entry fee would be allowed to enter the exhibition.

In reply to a query, he said free vaccination of animals, distribution of deformers and school feeding program will be held during the livestock services week.

Similar activities had also begun in other upazila headquarters of the district marking the week, said district livestock officer Dr. Md. Mahfuzar Rahman.

Earlier, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the week across the country virtually from Dhaka in the morning as the chief guest.