Building Rural Poultry Supply-Chains To Enhance Incomes through Community-Driven Interventions : Case Study from Jharkhand, India
Layer farming is an income-generating livelihood activity wherein egg-laying poultry birds are raised by a household for the purpose of egg production on a commercial scale. The few traditional rural producer households that are engaged in layer fa...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/980591591191474770/Building-Rural-Poultry-Supply-Chains-To-Enhance-Incomes-Through-Community-Driven-Interventions http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34713 |
| Summary: | Layer farming is an income-generating
livelihood activity wherein egg-laying poultry birds are
raised by a household for the purpose of egg production on a
commercial scale. The few traditional rural producer
households that are engaged in layer farming in Jharkhand
are constrained by high input costs (such as pullets, feed,
vaccinations), a high disease-based mortality rate, and poor
access to credit, making it a less remunerative income
source. Cereal-based feed is imported from Andhra Pradesh,
Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, thereby escalating input costs1.
Jharkhand is dependent on egg imports from neighboring
states, thus presenting a promising marketing opportunity
within the state. However, low and fragmented production,
coupled with poor market linkages and inefficiencies make it
a challenge for households to realize remunerative prices
from their produce. As a part of its diversified and
resilient production systems component, the JOHAR project
has invested in layer farming under the livestock
development sub-component, with the objective of improving
rural livelihoods in Jharkhand. This note investigates a
layer co-operative's federation, operational and
production model as well as financial feasibility. An
operational co-operative in Basia block, of Gumla district,
was used as a case and analyzed in detail. |
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