SMALLHOLDER POULTRY MODEL

Key Features:

• Women from tribal and other poor families are organized into producer collectives.
• A collective typically has 500-1000 members with 30-50 farmers in one village.
• Poultry sheds are built on their homesteads
• This intervention provides a women Skills, infrastructure, inputs and marketing assurance.
• The co-operative is designed in such a way to allow seamless transition of non-producers to producers making them compete with large poultry farmers, and stand in the market. It provides all necessary services to the farmers: (i) access to high quality inputs and market, (ii) on-farm production supports, (iii) organise working capital, (iv) marketing of birds, (iv) risk mitigation from input and output price movements etc.
• A community-based supervisor provides round-the-clock production management and farm-support
• A professional manager trained in veterinary or management sciences is engaged by the cooperative as its chief functionary responsible for day-to-day management and operational business decisions. Manager is supported by Production Manager, Veterinarians, marketing executive, account staff etc.
• Poultry Management System based on Quality Assurance Systems approach provides a detailed systems and procedures for business decisions and helps in compliance and monitoring, this is supported by a customised accounts & MIS software.
• The cooperatives are further federated into state level secondary organizations. The federation passes on the benefits of: vertical integration, professional and technical support, economies of scale, increased bargaining power with external suppliers and regulators. 

SMALLHOLDER BROILER MODEL

SMALLHOLDER LAYER MODEL

• Each Women has a broiler farm of 500-1000 birds.
• She can rear 5-6 batches in a year.
• Each woman earns around Rs.40,000-80,000/- in a year for 200 days (3-4 hours a day) of engagement

• Each Women has a layer farm of 400-500 birds.
• Each Bird may produce up to 320-340 eggs during the production life of next 52-60 weeks
• Each woman earns around Rs. 55,000-60,000/-  annually from this activity with 3-4 hours of engagement/day.