Small Holder Poultry
The Satpuda - Replicas of Native Chicken in Rural Poultry Production
This initiative has benefitted over 40,000 rural households in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, and has provided a means of complementary livelihood to marginal farmers, and in particular women farmers.
[Small Holder Poultry]
[Satpuda Desi]
[Maharashtra]
Lighting up Lives - Biogas from Poultry Litter as a Sustainable Energy Resource
This Potential Good Practice showcases the joint effort of communities, NGOs and government agencies to set up and run eco-friendly biogas plants that, by making use of available poultry litter, provide a low-cost source of energy to rural households with positive economic, environmental and health returns.
[Poultry Litter]
[Biogas]
[Bangladesh]
[Small Holder Poultry]
Reviving the Indigenous Poultry Breed, Kadaknath - Enhancing livelihoods of tribals through niche market opportunities
This potential Good Practice note describes a government initiative to introduce and promote the rearing of the Kadaknath poultry breed, an indigenous breed of Western Madhya Pradesh.
[Small Holder Poultry]
[Kadaknath]
Backyard Poultry Farming Through Self-Help Groups in West Bengal - Towards Good Livestock Policies
The note documents one of the Family-based Poultry Distribution Schemes of the Government of West Bengal under which poultry birds are distributed to poor rural households throughout the State.
[Small Holder Poultry]
[Rhode Island Red (RIR)]
Linking Business with Pro-Poor Development - a Backyard Poultry Value Chain Increases Assets, Income and Nutrition
This Good Practice note showcases a successful private sector - community partnership where vulnerable families in West Bengal have been linked with a rural poultry value chain that delivers three week old chicks to rearer's doorsteps.
[Kuroiler]
[Small Holder Poultry]
[West Bengal]
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