The student maintains expenditure of his study, even the student is supposed to provide expenditure by his guardian.
Not only he, but also his younger
brother is taking financial support to him.
Minhajul Islam, 17, son of
Mostafa Kamal of Sanwashi village of Halokhana union under Kurigram Sadar
upazila and HSC First year student of Kanthalbari Degree College under the
upazila.
He took the hobby observing
pigeon rearing in his maternal grandfather house in the union while he was in
class seven (in 2014). In the year he
took one pair of pigeon of local variety from his maternal grandfather.
One of them died as Minhajul had
no idea on pigeon farming. Next he bought another one pair of pigeon from nearest
Kanthalbari Bazar. But he could not be extending number of pigeon properly.
He went to Kanthalbari Bazar to
sell some pigeons. There he found pigeon of Shiraji variety and bought its one
pair with Tk 900.
Then he gathered primary knowledge
on pigeon farming to his neighbour while he was in class nine (in 2016).
Then he began farming of Shiraji and
local varieties in his house. First time, Shiraji variety gave eggs after five
months. From then, he begins to get profit properly from the farming.
Now Minhajul is rearing 30 pairs
of various varieties including local, Shiraji, Ghia Chunni, Lal Chunni, Shoa Chandan,
Red Bombai, Mukkhi, Kagzi and Greebaj. Now he is rearing local variety in cages
outside of house and good varieties in cages inside house.
“I give different feeds to them
in dusk and drawn every day. Elements of the feeds are wheat, maize dust,
china, Gandi pulse, mustard, paddy, rice and Greets (mixes of brick dust, egg
skin, snail dust, oyster dust etc.),” Minhajul said.
“My father is a small trader. He
is not interested to provide me with study expenditure. Every month I earn
around Tk 7,000 through pigeon farming while I expend only Tk 50 per day for
their feeds. The pigeon farming does not hamper to my study. With the income, I
maintain my study expenditure including my college and private tuition fees and
buy my dresses,” Minhajul said.
He sells each pair of pigeon chicken
of upper varieties with Tk 1,000 to Tk 2,400 according to variety while he
sells each pair of local variety with Tk 300. Last year, he bought one cow with
Tk 26,000 with profits.
“The pigeons live in pairs and each
pair gives two eggs every month. For this, two joint chambers are provided to each
pairs of pigeons. I am pleasured while they call with their melodious voice
‘Bak Bakum ........’ at dawn and dusk and give money (through eggs and chicken),”
he added.
“There is no need large space for
pigeon farming. I think – pigeon farming is a good hobby for poor students who
could earn easily for maintaining their study expenditure from it,” Minhajul
said.
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Student Minhajul Islam giving corns to his pet
pigeons in his house yard.
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