Tasneem Imam

The University of Queensland | UQ · School of Veterinary Science

Adapting the Social Cognitive Theory framework, we conducted a cross-sectional study on 137 commercial chicken farms in Bangladesh to investigate factors influencing the behaviour of farmers towards the application of antimicrobials to their birds. Almost all farmers used antimicrobials to treat poultry diseases, while 38.6% also were using them to...

Commercial broiler and layer farming represents an important livestock industry in Bangladesh. Adequate biosecurity practices are considered to be an effective method to prevent infectious disease occurrence on commercial poultry farms, but antimicrobials are also frequently administered to reduce disease risk. We conducted a cross-sectional study...

Commercial poultry production is growing rapidly in Bangladesh to address the increasing demand for poultry meat and eggs. Challenges faced by producers include the occurrence of poultry diseases, which are usually treated or controlled by antimicrobials. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 57 commercial layer and 83 broiler farms in eight sub...

Social media has become an important element of communication mix in business in global context and it will continue to expand in the future. Bangladesh is no exception to this fact. This paper aims to find out the rate of consumer responses towards Facebook Marketing Communications regarding raw milk purchase in Chittagong. It also finds out the f...

Live Bird Markets (LBMs) in Asian countries are considered as hubs for the spread and maintenance of different infectious diseases. In Bangladesh, LBMs are the major source of live and dressed poultry to consumers and until now only a few studies have been conducted targeting infectious agent status such as avian influenza virus (AIV) prevalence of...

Livestock rearing is an integral part of people's livelihood in Bangladesh and it is being intensified as the commercial dairy farming has been grown up where the farmers usually not well aware about welfare issues of animals. The aim of this study was to study different factors associated with welfare issues of dairy animals in terms of management...

Commercial dairy farming is becoming popular in Bangladesh to fill up the demand of milk and generation of employment opportunity. The aim of the present study was to study the socioeconomic status of the farm owners and employees of commercial dairy farm in Chittagong. A cross sectional study was carried out for a period of 10 months in urban (Chi...

The study attempts at examining the association of a few selected socio-economic and demographic characteristics on diabetic prevalence. Nationally representative data from BIRDEM 2000 have been used to meet the objectives of the study. Cross tabulation, Chi-square and logistic regression analysis have been used to portray the necessary association...