Poultry egg and meat will be better safe within five years

The consumers will get nutritious, more tasty and more safe poultry.

Poultry insiders and experts hoped that Poultry industry of Bangladesh will produce high quality chicken meat and egg within five years.
The consumers will get nutritious, more tasty and more safe poultry, they also added.
The industry leaders and experts assumed this in an international seminar held at a city convention center, organized by the World’s Poultry Science Association-Bangladesh Branch (WPSA-BB) on Friday.
Director General of Department of Livestock Services (DLS) Dr Monjur Mohammad Shahjada was present as the chief guest in the seminar.
Among others, Director General of the Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute (BLRI) Dr. S M Jahangir Hossain, president of WPSA- Bangladesh Moshiur Rahman, general secretary Mahabub Hassan spoke in the function.
Chief guest Dr Monjur Mohammad Shahjada said, the Father of Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman took initiatives to ensuring food security. His successor Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina putting sincere efforts not only to ensure food security but also nutrition security. Food Safety is an important agenda of this government. Dr. Shahjada said, Bangladesh has progressed towards achieving poultry food and feed safety. The uses of prebiotics and probiotics has been increasing significantly which indicates that we are avoiding unnecessary uses of antibiotics. The private sector has been contributing a lot to keep poultry meat and egg safe.
Director General of the Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute (BLRI) Dr. S M Jahangir Hossain said, the government of Bangladesh is serious about safe food. Poultry is a scientific sector. Poultry scientists are working hard to ensure production of safe poultry meat, egg and feed.
President of WPSA- Bangladesh Moshiur Rahman said, people of all ages from children to aged persons consume poultry meat and egg. Therefore we must ensure better safety. Moshiur said, “We have to improve biosecurity and waste management to reduce disease load. All the unregistered feed mills, breeder farms and commercial poultry farms should be get registered within a short time.” He said, farmers’ awareness is not enough, the consumers should also have better understanding about safe food.
General Secretary of WPSA-Bangladesh Mahabub Hassan said, Bangladesh has started exporting poultry and fish feed since 2019. The industry is preparing to export poultry meat and meat products. Therefore, cost effective production and food & feed safety is very important for us.
Executive member of WPSA-Bangladesh Shamsul Arefin Khaled said, government support is a must to ensure safe poultry production. Therefore long term, mid-term and short-term planning is vital.
Internationally recognized poultry expert Gordon Butland said, the global animal protein industry is going through a very difficult period. After over two years of the Covid pandemic, it is impacted by very high raw material costs due to poor harvests in South America, disease challenges, effects on the economics of the pandemic and recently the outbreak of an armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which is affecting important sources of grains, fertilizers and energy. Although from a health perspective the effects of Covid in many parts of the world are diminishing, the economic effects are now beginning to be felt. Governments were forced to provide support during the pandemic, and many are now having to increase taxation to pay for the debt incurred. Consequently, the consumers are facing a “perfect storm” with food and fuel prices skyrocketing.
Dr. Santiago Ramirez in his paper said, achieving a cost-competitive and safe poultry production requires an integrative approach across many areas of poultry production from diet formulation and selection of raw materials, bird health, bird welfare and food and feed safety.
The speakers of the seminar said, around 45 per cent of meat is coming from Poultry. We are consuming more than 105 eggs per person per year. At present Deshi chicken and egg are not available in the market. Therefore, people are depending on poultry mostly. The dependency will increase day by day. When beef and mutton prices are spiraling up, price of broiler meat is decreasing. Poultry is now poor’s protein. So, we have to save poultry industry and save the farmers.