Backyard Poultry Farming Project

Sector: Poultry

Location: Ramanathapuram, Kilinochchi

Implementing Agency: The Economic Consultancy House (TECH)

Target Group: 30 families of low income groups and country fowl keepers who are internally displaced and live under the poverty line

Problem:

• Inadequate number of good quality country fowl strain
• High cost of formulated feed
• Disease out-breaks (Ranikhet)
• Lack of veterinary services
• Inadequate marketing facilities

Immediate Objectives:

• Supplementary income
• To improve the nutritional standards of farming families and the elimination of malnutrition
• Support and cooperation of LIBCO
• Support and co-operation of poultry produce consumers

External Factors Affecting Achievement Objectives:

• Compete with commercial poultry keepers
• Extraneous supply of eggs and meat from southern regions
• Support cooperation and coordination of DAPH (NEP)

Output of the Project:

• Increasing egg and meat production
• Increase in number of chicks/birds
• Assurance for the growth of younger generation with nutritional values
• Alleviation of poverty and malnutrition

Describe the Target Group’s Participation in Planning of the Project:

• The need for an increase in country fowl population
• Identification of poverty-stricken, low-income and internally displaced family
• Need for the identification of bonafide poultry keepers

Describe Target Group’s participation in implementation:

• Family labour is provided for construction of poultry shed and for looking after the birds.

Describe how the project book will benefit the Target Group:

• The productivity and income of target group will be increased
• Improvement of living standard of internally displaced, poverty stricken, and low-income families
• Efficient utilization of family labor
• Efficient disposal of kitchen and farm refuse.
• Increases the nutritional status of the family
• Provide chicken as replacement stock.

Describe how the project may affect the situation of women:

• The living standard of women will be increased due to increase in family income

Describe how the project will affect the environment:

• Disease out-breaks and problems
• Eco-friendly farming system

Describe how the project will be operated and maintained in future:

• This project will be operated by TECH
• The project will be maintained with generated income

Project Cost:

No	Items	Unit cost	Unit	Total cost
1	Assistance and issue of material for the establishment of poultry shed	1000	30	30,000
2	Issue of month old pullets 30 in No @ Rs.100.00 each	3000	30	90,000
3	Supply of feeders and waterers	500	30	15,000
4	Supply of poultry feed up to the laying point	7500	30	225,000
5				360,000 .00