Farida Advocates for Reduced Antibiotic Use to Ensure Safe Food Supply

Calling upon all concerned to lessen use of animal antibiotics  for the safe food, Fisheries and Livestock,  advisor of the Interim government Farida Akhter  has said antibiotics use must be restricted for the animal aiming to ensure safe food supply available for the people. “The human foods are closely related with the animals”, she said while exchanging views with poultry, livestock and fisheries growers of Delduar upazila  under  Tangail district  on Tuesday.

 All the foods whatever the people consume like vegetables, fruits, fish and meat are being contaminated with the affect of antibiotic, she said. As a result,  the human bodies become resistant to antibiotic and  when people consume those foods and  particular doses of antibiotic usually doesn’t not work for recovery of diseases  of a patient.

Stressing on raising social awareness among the farmers, the fisheries and livestock advisor said the growers must have to give importance on producing poultry feed  from  their own rather than buying .the company products. The fisheries and livestock department will cooperate the growers in this regard, she added.

While the farmers informed her the price hikes of poultry feed and day old chicks, the advisor said every farmers should be an independent one, not to become a contract farmers. Farida mentioned that the feed producing companies are doing monopoly business  due to the contract farming, and  the real farmers are becoming looser. The advisor said the poultry industries are contributing a lot in creating women entrepreneurship  in the country and it helps women to become self-dependent.

Chaired by Delduar Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Mostafa Abdullah Al Noor, the programme also attended among others, by Tangail district livestock office (DLO) Dr M Mostafizur Rahman, District Fisheries Officer (DFO) M Abul Kalam Azad, Upazila Livestock Officer (ULO) Dr Mohammad Shafiqul Islam, Senior Upazila Fisheries Officer M Tariqul Islam, govt-non government officials and scores of livestock and fisheries growers.