Background on Bangladesh and AL
Bangladesh is an agro-based developing country and the 80% inhabitants live in the rural area. 90% of the rural people are farmers and associated with agricultural production and distribution process.
The high density of population, flood, drought, natural calamity, gradual decrease of land size holding due to family division etc., have resulted negatively in the rural economy.
With the limited resource in hand the poor, landless and marginal farmers of the country additionally maintains livestock including cattle as a normal practice. In Bangladesh cattle contributes in the agricultural production activities by way of draft power, biological manure, fuel, industrial raw materials like milk, meat, bone, hide, skin etc.
In Bangladesh there are about 23.5 million cattle heads, and availability of breedable cow is 45%. The cattle holding by households vary between 3 to 6. Since the last two decades the livestock sector was pondering on the elite group for increasing livestock production in the country. To increase livestock production, a high yielding cattle is a prerequisite factor. We can increase livestock products like milk, meat etc., by introducing higher genetic material during breeding the cows artificially, that is Artificial Insemination (AI).
Artificial Insemination is the introduction of male reproductive cell (spermatozoa) in to female reproductive tract by an artificial means.
