Profitability and problems of farmers in duck farming: a study on haor areas in Bangladesh

Subject Areas : Agricultural Extension

Shonia Sheheli ¹ , Md. Nur Alom Sarkar Mithun ² , Sourav Banik ³

1 - Department of Agricultural Extension Education, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh
2 - Department of Agricultural Extension Education, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh
3 - Department of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh.

Received: 2023-07-13 Accepted : 2023-09-20 Published : 2023-09-30

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