Farmers in local breeds of chickens

This is the second time that Lilamaya has raised local chickens commercially. After getting double the income of the investment in the previous time, she is excited and now she has put one hundred and fifty chicks in the second lot . Husband Meen Bahadur and mother-in-law Maiyan accompanied him in the paddy cultivation Given are .

'Since the income is good, I raised 50 more chickens than the one I raised before,' she said, 'In the first lot, the income was 150,000, let's see what happens in the second.' Local chickens were in her house before. ; But it was not for sale.

'Chadbaad and Kosipare Puja were all done . Even those who came to look for chickens had to be turned away as they were not for sale,' Leelamaya remembered the old days. She is also a female volunteer of Ale village. She has already taken training on this . After the training, one and a half dozen farmers of Ale village, including Lilamaya, raised commercial local breed chickens. The income of the first lot has enabled those farmers to start raising chickens .

It was Lilamaya's experience that when there are chickens all over the village, there is a problem in selling them. Not knowing that chickens are available in this village, customers did not come, they were delivered to the district headquarters and Kathmandu and sold, Lilamaya expressed her grief. Lilamaya's mother-in-law is stunned after her daughter-in-law throws a chicken. She said that taking care of chickens after feeding in old age is a suitable job for her.

Sita Rokka of Ale village has hatched 80 local breed chicks . Rocca, who had bred 40 for the first time, made a double this time . I added chickens because I saw the income, she said, 'can you get one lakh by cutting the expenses.' She earned 50,000 from the first chicken sale. He was trained to breed local breeds of chickens, but because he did not know how to take medicine, the chicks Rokka expressed her pain by stopping her from dying. She suggested that the farmers would be encouraged if they came from the animal service office every now and then to administer medicine.

They are sure that customers will come home if there is publicity that local chicken is available in Wikat Alegaon, which the highway has just reached. Farmers say that chickens will be worth selling within four to six months.

'It is worth two kilos in four months,' said another farmer, Bhojkumari Alemgar, 'The male is sold for 700 rupees per kilo, the female is sold for 600. On the day of the market, the chicken is cut and gone.' He says that if the medicine can be administered to the chicks, it will be more vigorous.

Another farmer Anil Magar says that after three months, there will be more than two thousand chickens of local breeds for sale in Ale village, so it will be easy to contact the traders of Kadmadau. He said that they were inspired to raise chickens after the organization gave them the first lot of chicks after training them.

Through the nutrition and uplifting livelihood program, farmers of local breeds of chickens, goats, goats and cattle have been reared in Ale village. According to Deepak Ghimire, President of Seeds Nepal, 61 houses in Alegaon are engaged in commercial animal husbandry. They say, "Along with the income, farmers have also started saving by forming groups."