Cross-Sectional Survey on Food Animal Diseases and Pharmaceuticals Prescribing Pattern in Jhenaidah, Bangladesh

B angladesh is a densely populated country with 80% of the rural people engaged with cattle rearing (Siddiki et al., 2010).The total cattle and goat population of Bangladesh is 23.8 million and 26.2 million respectively (Anon, 2020).Compared to neighbouring countries like India, Nepal and Myanmar, Bangladesh has low produc-tivity in milk production (Uddin et al., 2011).Estimated milk and meat production are 9.3 and 7.2 million metric tons respectively; having a deficiency of 5.6 million metric tons of milk and a surplus of 0.02 million metric tons of meat (Anon, 2017).Cattle and goat are extremely important to household farmers; because of having a direct link with family's income, welfare, and nutritional supplement (Sarker and Islam, 2011).It is important to maximize