Hyderabad: ICAR-Directorate of Poultry Research, Hyderabad, has successfully established a Field Demonstration Unit on ‘IntegratedMoringa Farming with Backyard Poultry’ in the adopted tribal village of Baoji Thanda, Mahbubnagar District, Telangana.
Dr. R.N. Chatterjee, Director, Directorate of Poultry Research, Telangana, emphasised the benefits of integrated farming as a better approach to farmland management. He further added that growing moringa provides high-quality protein feed which helps in reducing the cost of chicken production.
About 100 Gramapriya birds, a rural layer chicken variety, were provided by the Directorate and reared in this unit under a free-scavenging system, utilizing resources from the unit such as fallen Moringa leaves, plant materials, insects, worms, ants, flies, etc. A total of 60 farmers from the village, along with scientists and technical staff from the Directorate participated in the programme.
