A federation of 1800 women adivasis across 80 villages in Andhra Pradesh resurrect Aseel population

Main Features

• Building local disease management and feeding strategies.
• Promoting traditional asset sharing systems to preserve Aseel biodiversity.
• Mount lobbying mechanisms for timely vaccination services with government agencies.

Learnings

• Bird of choice.
• In-situ conservation involving local communities.
• Health services especially vaccinations (New Castle Disease, Fowl pox) remain critical inputs.
• Traditional systems of poultry asset building effective.
• Enriching the poultry scavenging area leads to balanced human and poultry rations.