Project Name: Sustainable Enterprise Project (SEP)
Sub-project: “Transforming traditional farming practice to safe and natural farming practices of beef fattening enterprises in the Padma riverine area”
Sector: Agriculture
Sub Sector: Beef Fattening
Project Objective:
• Reduce Protein deficiency in the country by increasing the production of safe beef in environment friendly process.
• Sustainable and eco-friendly beef fattening.
• Improve financial strength of MEs through commercial beef fattening in environment friendly process.
• To creation of new employment without any harm to the environment.
• Improve access to premium market.
• Creation of Mirkadim brand as a local breed.
• Capacity building of MEs and ensure availability of quality veterinary services.
• Improve overall environment of the project areas.
Project Goal: To increase the income of the entrepreneur through fattening of cows and expansion of market along with overall environmental development of the project area.
Project Brief: Enhancing environmental sustainability and climate resilience are becoming increasingly important for sustaining Bangladesh’s economic progress. In the microenterprise sector, attention to environmental sustainability and climate resilience is limited due to a mix of capacity, market accessibility, knowledge and financial barriers. While the statistics show a high contribution to GDP from microenterprises, there is little evidence to show that microenterprises are growing in a sustainable way.
In the Beef fattening sector about 80% MEs have no proper drainage in their farm, 78% have no disposable site and 52% have no initiative to control odor, insects and mosquito breeding in their farm. Most of MEs are not aware of farm waste management. Safety issues in the work place have ignored. Peoples were used surface water for their daily washing purpose. Level of environmental and regulatory awareness was either very poor or ignored.
The sustainability of environment will ensure the improved eco-friendly practices among the targeted MEs through the facilitation and motivation to construct environment friendly farm house. Improved cow-dung management. Support in high yielding fodder cultivation, awareness building training of the MEs about the eco-friendly beef fattening. The project will also work on proper drainage; arrange disposable site, control odor, insects and mosquito breeding, proper vaccination, availability of veterinary services, purchase medicine from authentic sources, medical wastes management and to ensure quarantine facility for newly purchased animals.
Working Area: (Name Of Sub District, District.)
Name of the districts: Munshigonj
Name of the Upzilla: Serajdikhan, Sreenagar & Lohajang.
Union/s: 32 Unions
Serajdikhan Upzilla: 12 Unions
Sreenagar Upzilla: 11 Unions
Lohajang Upzilla: 9 Unions
Beneficiaries: Total Targeted Number of Micro Enterprises (MEs) : 1570; Total Present Micro Enterprises (MEs): 3680
Major activities: Revenue generating common service facilities development:
• Commercial Vermi-compost production.
• Model Enterprenure development for environment friendly Mirkadim beef fattening.
• Pilate Machine.
• High Yielding Fodder Production.
• Environment friendly fodder chopping machine.
• Mobile Paravet Strengthening Service.
Non-revenues generating physical activities:
• Installation of cow-dung dumper in a common place and Biogas plant.
• Eco-friendly cattle housing development for Mirkadim Cattle.
• Urine reserver at farm level.
• Mirkadim Cattle Breeding and Restocking farm.
• Ecological Farming at Majhirkandi Char.
• Flood Resilient cattle shade development.
• Establishment of portable Biogas plant.
• Auto drinker Installation.
• Water sprinkler system installation.
• Fogger system installation for fattening Farm.
• Mass cattle Immunization.
• Organize Vaccination and deworming campaign at cluster level.
Initiatives to Increase Eco Labelling and Access to Premium Markets:
• Linkage development workshop with MEs and legal authority of environmental certification.
• E-platform.
• Linkage development workshop with MEs and legal authority of product certification
• Orientation to the MEs on business certification
• Linkage development workshop with MEs, Input and output market actors on business certification.
• Online marketing orientation for MEs on marketing of live cattle, fodder, process fodder & vermin compost
• Conduct workshop on Market linkage with the backward and forward market actors.
• Linkage meeting with different stockholder.
• Branding and market promotion.
Capacity Development of PO:
• Capacity Building: Staff training on Project management.
• Monitoring & Evaluation (Baseline Survey, Final evaluation, Internal Audit & External Audit etc.)
• Training, Meeting, Seminar & Workshop:
• Project Launching Workshop.
• Annual Planning & Review meeting for the staff
• Experience sharing workshop with the concerned authority
Capacity Development of MEs:
• Basic training on Environment firendly Beef Fattening Management.
• Training on Waste management.
• Training on Vermi compost production.
• Training on Fodder Cultivation.
• Training on Safe and antibiotic free beef Production.
• Training on Cow dung dumping and manure production.
• Orientation to the MEs on environment pollution.
• Environment forum.
• Capacity building training on LSP (Local service Provider).
• Capacity building training on Butcher.
• Training on Beef Marketing.
• Training on Safe Beef product production.
• Community meeting for awareness raising on food safety, environment , health and hygiene.
• Learning visit in better practice (environment/enterprise) cluster.
• Awareness Information card (leaflet, banner, poster, signboard, etc. on environment and enterprises).
• Video Documentary.
