Planning and Development Research

The Market Systems Resilience Index (MSRI) measures the market's ability to react, withstand, and change in response to shocks and stressors. Understanding the different needs and vulnerabilities that households and market actors are required to overcome, can help identify channels through which effective interventions can be adopted. iDE’s MSRI tool measures the resilience of market systems, providing an opportunity for adaptive management, and at the same time, enables iDE to develop metrics to monitor and assess improvement. The primary goal of using the MSRI tool in Suchana is to examine how market system factors affect resilience at both the market actor and household levels in the Northeast region of Bangladesh. The MSRI tool also provides useful insights and evidence for making policy and programmatic recommendations to strengthen market systems. MSRI results describe the market system of Sylhet and Moulvibazar, illustrating that households are more resilient than market act

Growth Rate Analysis of Goat As the popular saying goes, goat is the poor man’s cow. It is in fact farming meat goats can be more effective and profitable than either sheep or cattle. In general the birth weight is around 800g-900g without any supplementary feed. But in favorable condition with our multi grain feed the kid can gain 200-500g at birth. On the other hand, a kid should gain at least 15-20 grams per day from birth to 100 days of age. But if the kid continues to have the feed, it can easily gain more than 20 grams per day. Assuming that, it would be slaughtered from 6-12 month of age, here is a comparative analysis of growth rate of goat with and without taking the feed.   Age Average growth with  supplementary feed (g) Average growth without supplementary feed (g) At Birth 1100 800 3 month (3x30x20=1800) 1100+1800=2900 800+900=1700 6 month (6x30x20=3600)