Women Empowerment through Participation in Backyard Poultry Rearing: A Case Study from Namakkal District, Tamil Nadu
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Women play a signi cant and crucial role in agricultural development and allied elds. This paper presents a potentially effective empowerment strategy for women, using Backyard poultry as a case-study. The empowerment of women is the key issue in protecting women’s interests. The rural women folk were provided with desi poultry birds, inputs and capacity building to strengthen their livelihood and economic improvement. A unit of 1 male and 2 female desi chicken (8 weeks old) was supplied to the bene ciaries after deworming and vaccination against Ranikhet disease. The bene ciary was trained on package of practices related to backyard poultry-keeping. The economic analysis of a single case proved substantial income from the provided input.
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