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TDA launches ‘Mother Poultry’ to empower tribal women
The Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA), Paderu, taken up ‘Mother Poultry’, a new initiative, to provide succour to the tribal women. The ITDA bought one-day-old 3,000 Kuroiler chicks from Odisha and started the poultry as a pilot project at Gondipadu village in G Madugula mandal.
Visakhapatnam: The Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA), Paderu, taken up ‘Mother Poultry’, a new initiative, to provide succour to the tribal women. The ITDA bought one-day-old 3,000 Kuroiler chicks from Odisha and started the poultry as a pilot project at Gondipadu village in G Madugula mandal.
The chicks will be taken care in the ‘Mother Poultry’ for 21-days for which some of the experienced poultry farmers came to the Gondipadu village to monitor the health of the chicks for three weeks. After 21-days, 10 birds will be distributed to each member of the local self-help group. The specialty of the Kuroiler birds is each bird will lay 260 eggs in a year.
The Project Officer, ITDA, Paderu, Ravi Pattanshetti, said that with this Kuroiler birds, each tribal family would get nutritious food particularly the women in the family. If, they do not consume, the eggs would also be sold and get some money. Once, the scheme was success, the same would be taken up across 11 mandals, the project officer said.
With the number of reports, that the tribal women are suffering from various health disorders due lack of the proper nutritious diet, the ITDA encouraging self-vegetation by supplying various seeds to the tribal families. Seeds of several varieties of vegetables include leafy vegetables, lady fingers, carrot and white radish were distributed. The ITDA has also arranged training to the tribals to cultivate vegetables.
By VKL Gayatri
