Name: Smti. Binita Singh
Village : North Wandoor, South Andaman
Family size : 7 nos.
Contact No.: 9933272310
Name: Smti. Binita Singh
Village : North Wandoor, South Andaman
Family size : 7 nos.
Contact No.: 9933272310
Smti. Binita Singh is 12th pass lady and lives in joint family of five members. Her husband is a daily ratedmazdoor. She is having a small rice cultivation land (less than one acre).She was having 15-20 backyard desi birds and thought of increasing the numbers to get some additional income. However, due to non-availability of desi chicks and high mortality in birds due to Ranikhet disease and Infectious bursal disease, she could not increase the flock size.
During 2019 she contacted ICAR-CIARI and underwent one month training under DBT-Biotech Kisan Hub on poultry farming, mini incubator and goat farming. She gained knowledge and skills on operation and maintenance of mini incubator for artificial hatching and on vaccination and balanced for rural poultry. One mini incubator was established under the Biotech kisan hub.
She is hatching desi eggs in mini incubator with charging cost of Rs15 per egg. Her own backyard poultry flock size increased to 50 numbers per month. A total of 100 farmers of North Wandoor have benefitted availing incubation facility for hatching the rural chicks. Through this service the availability of rural desi poultry has been increased in the area and almost 2000 chicks were sold to the other farmers. She has become the women farmer entrepreneur for the supply of desi chicks in her area.
Earlier she had no income from backyard poultry that were for home consumption only.Presently, she is earning Rs. 8000 to 9000 per month through hiring cost of hatchable eggs in the incubator and through sale of rural poultry.
Planned to purchase one more incubator to upscale.
Contributors : T.Sujatha, Jai Sunder, and D.Bhattacharya