A training programme on poultry farming was held at the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation here being organised by the ITDA Jeypore and supported by Mitsubishi Corporation.
Thirty-four members of 17 SHGs of 12 villages under Kundra and Boipariguda blocks participated in the programme. A total of 181 tribal women members of the SHGs were paid Rs6,500 each through cheques by the Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA).
ITDA Project Administrator laxmidhar Dash handed over the cheques to the beneficiaries and made them aware about poultry farming and its outcome including gross and net profits. Out of Rs6,500, the beneficiaries would construct a farmhouse on their homestead lands with an amount of Rs3,000 while the remaining amount of Rs3,500 was allotted for purchase of chicks, feeding and vaccination, informed Dash.
The main objective of the programme is to create an avenue of self-employment and sustainable income generation for the SHGs, he added.
Among others, Kalu Dora, Subash Naik and Rakesh Kumar Sarangi from Haush Trust and Director-in-Charge of MSRF SV Ramana witnessed the programme, which was coordinated by Foundation scientist Prasant Kumar Parida.