While this makes it easy for their owners to maintain them, it leads to insufficient or improper nutrition at times which in turn results in low body weight of the birds and smaller egg sizes, thus fetching lower prices.
#Poultry farm management in kerala free
Traditionally in India poultry birds are free ranging and left to forage, consuming seeds, and insects and so on. This poses a challenge for tribal and rural communities, seeing as they would rather harness the grains for their own nutrition as opposed to using it to prepare feed for the poultry. Now, most of the costs incurred in this otherwise inexpensive venture are effectively for the feed, sometimes as high as 70%. Rural communities prefer to cultivate the local, desi breed of poultry, owing to its relatively low maintenance costs and ability to fend for itself with respect to food. Backyard poultry is traditionally practiced as a supplementary activity to farming, as it provides an important source of protein (eggs and meat) for household consumption and an added income source for these families. India ranking 3rd in global egg production and 7th in chicken production accentuates the importance of this occupation to its total output.
TERI develops feed from locally sourced ingredients such as Azolla, drumstick leaves and egg shellsīackyard poultry farming continues to remain one of the foremost ventures undertaken by lower-income groups in rural India, where household poultry production contributes to 70% of the overall food generated in most low-income countries.
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