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A number of poor families living in the char villages of Sadar, Raipura and Belabo upazilas of the district have been able to reverse their destitution by rearing ducks.
The inhabitants of char villages are mostly poor who lost everything to river erosion.
A couple of years ago, they started rearing ducks on a commercial basis with the determination to change the economic condition of their families.
On average, there are more than 50 ducks in one family and they are earning Tk 3 to 4 thousand every month selling eggs and ducks.
Morjina Begum, a housewife of Char Alokbali village under Sadar upazila, said she gets on average 35 to 40 eggs every day from her pets and she is now earning more than Tk 7,000 every month.
She is content as she has finally started to earn by farming ducks.
Her children are now going to school. There are quite a few poor families residing in the char areas whose only income source is poultry, especially duck reading, said Morjina.
District Livestock officer Habibur Rahman said duck farming has also become a stable means to gainful employment.
Many people including poor and marginally unemployed youths are now joining the business and have become economically solvent by rearing ducks besides trading domestic birds and its eggs.
He said duck farming is less expensive, simple and commercially viable.
