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Black in business: Kadaknath farming transforming lives -Anuraag Singh

-The New Indian Express

Poultry farming of this protein-rich black chicken paying rich dividends, reports Anuraag Singh

MADHYA PRADESH: In many parts of the country, the colour black has been considered inauspicious. But in the forests of western Madhya Pradesh’s tribal-dominated Bheelanchal region, the same colour is ushering in fortune and prosperity in the lives of people who were once forced to work as labourers in adjoining Gujarat.

Welcome to Jhabua, Alirajpur and Dhar. These districts are dominated by the Bheel and Bhilala tribes. Organised poultry farming of the highly proteinaceous black chicken variety known as Kadaknath has changed their lives. Aged 32, Vinod Meda once drove garbage trucks in Gujarat’s Bharuch to earn Rs 8,000 a month to sustain his parents, wife and three children in Runipada village in Jhabua. In 2015, he borrowed Rs 2 lakh from a local lender to build a pucca house. Realising that repaying the loan with his salary was impossible, he returned to his village and started Kadaknath farming under the guidance of the Jhabua-based Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK). He got a loan of Rs 4.40 lakh from the district cooperative society. Six years down the line, Vinod is one of the biggest Kadaknath farmers in Jhabua and owns a big house, a sizable portion of land, two motorcycles and a tractor.

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