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T2-17P-1232
Performance and Adaptability of Different Improved Variety of Backyard
Poultry in Garhwa District of Jharkhand
Sushma Lalita Baxla 1 , Ashok Kumar 2 and Sudhir Kumar Jha 3
1,2
Krishi Vigyan Kendra Garhwa, Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi-834006 Jharkhand,
India
3
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Palamu,Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi-834006 Jharkhand,
India
Backyard poultry farming is an age-old traditional practice in rural India. It comprises rearing
of indigenous birds with poor production performance in terms of egg and meat. It plays a
pivotal role in supplementary income generation and nutrition security to the rural poor
(Choudhary et al., 2019, Kiskuetal., 2019). Generally in backyard poultry farming, farmer
rears 5-10 indigenous desi birds which produce 50-60 eggs per year and low meat production
(Shekhar et al., 2020). Jharkhand is tribal dominated state where backyard poultry is one of
the main source of livelihood for tribal and other low income farmers. Garhwa is also having
tribal and low-income group of scheduled caste as well as other backyard class of farmers
who rear backyard poultry for their livelihood but due to lack of knowledge about improved
breed and management practices, the productivity performance was very poor. There is
constant demand for poultry meat and eggs in rural as well as urban areas of Garhwa district.
Divyayan Red and Jharsim, an improved variety of dual purpose, multi colored plumage,
better production potential, disease resistance and good scavenging behaviour poultry
developed by Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi, Jharkhand and Divyayan Krishi Vigyan
Kendra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, respectively were taken as treatments in the present trial. The
experiment was conducted at seven farmers field in two villages – Sangbariya and Tenar of
Meral block of Garhwa district under NICRA project. The productivity and profitability of
existing backyard poultry farming is very low. Considering these factors, an On Farm Trial
was conducted to assess the performance of different improved variety of backyard poultry
under free scavenging backyard system in Garhwa district of Jharkhand India
Ecosystem based approaches for climate change adaptation, ecosystem services, integrated farming system
models, Land degradation neutrality
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