GAIBANDHA, April 19, 2024 (BSS) - The Livestock Services Week and Exhibition-2024 started at Sadullapur upazila town in the district as elsewhere in the country on Thursday with the theme "prani sompode bhorbo desh, 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, a discussion and prize distribution function was also held on hospital premises with UNO Kawsar Habib in the chair.
 
   Upazila livestock officer Dr. Sirajul Islam, upazila agriculture officer Matiul Alam, assistant commissioner (Land) Md. Asaduzzaman addressed the function as focal persons.
 
   The function was also addressed, among others, by president of upazila Awami League Abdul Jalil Sarker, journalist Tajul Islam Reza and young entrepreneur Golam Kibria while veterinary surgeon Dr. Abdullahel Kafi 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.
 
  Earlier, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the week across the country virtually from Dhaka in the morning as the chief guest.