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Large Area Approach |
Initiatives |
Networked backyard
poultry enterprises
Backyard poultry is a
valuable source of additional income for poor in drought
prone areas. The initiative is to establish
 sources
of chick supply by promoting chick rearing as an enterprise,
provide vaccination services and streamlining supplementary
feed supply. Two batches of poultry were grounded with 4500
chicks (vanaraja - dual purpose breed supplied by the
Project Directorate on Poultry), which were reared for one
and half months in the centers by women taking up the
enterprise. They were sold in the village and nearby markets
by them after one and half months. The processes are
evolving. (see Annexure for learnings). The 3rd batch with
new processes will be tried from July, 2007. Collaboration
was established with Veterinary University to try a desi
bird being developed by the university. It is targeted to
reach a 10000 backyard chicken population to generate
marketable surplus to initiate collective marketing. The
program would be upscaled in 2008 after completing the 3rd
cycle.
A community based chicken insurance program was also tried
covering the risks of predation, as these birds are highly
prone predation due to less agility. The predation-insurance
is giving good results and the processes need to be further
streamlined.
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