Career of livestock LSP Belal Hossain

LSP Belal vaccinating poultry on-farm

38 years old Local Service Provider (LSP) Belal Hossain is one of the most sought after men in the periphery of 25 villages in the Upazilas Jamalpur district for his knowledge and skills in livestock management. Especially his expertise in artificial insemination in cows and goats is well known. The journey of Belal’s career was not easy. After beginning his career as a small landholder and marginal farmer he had to face many ups and downs in his one and half decades of career journey to become a private service provider and employer of a small workforce.

Nur Khatun grows more rice with SRI

Proud Nur Khatun in her rice field

Nur Khatun and her husband Enamul Haque knew that it would be a risk to adopt a new rice cultivation method which is not used by anyone they knew. It could well have been that they would not harvest any rice. Nur Khatun, is a field crop and vegetable beneficiary of the Cross-border project in the village of Poravita in Parramrampur Union, Dewangang, Jamalpur.