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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | How Kadaknath chicken from Naxal-hit Dantewada could be the new food fad -Shantanu Nandan Sharma

How Kadaknath chicken from Naxal-hit Dantewada could be the new food fad -Shantanu Nandan Sharma

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published Published on Nov 28, 2017   modified Modified on Nov 28, 2017
-The Economic Times

DANTEWADA: A fowl from poverty-stricken and Naxal-affected Dantewada region in Chhattisgarh is slowly getting to be the favoured white meat on urban menus. The ironies are flavourful. The chicken has black meat and the state government is hoping women autodrivers will give it the required fillip to reach the economic scale to be self-sustaining.

Uday Chand Sinha is fast picking up the tricks of the trade in raising Kadaknath chicken, and also the economics of it. Locally called Kalimasi — the fowl with black flesh — the Kadaknath is considered a premium breed and its meat is priced three times more than that of broiler chicken. As Sinha is growing 333 Kadaknath fowls at a farm in Palnar village in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district, he is confident, at least 300 birds will survive. In a back-of-the-envelope calculation, Sinha hopes to make a decent Rs 2 to 2.5 lakh in six months, discounting the inevitability that some of the grownup fowls could be weighted marginally lower than two kilograms, and he might also end up selling the meat at a price a tad below Rs 500 per kg.

“In the worst case, I should make Rs 5 lakh by raising 1,000 birds… The capital is not a concern in the first season as the government subsidises it, but from the next year, I have to be on my own except the government supporting only in vaccination and medicine. So, I must save some money for the next round,” he says.

Kadaknath, to be precise, is not a local fowl in Dantewada though it is grown in pockets of Bastar including Dantewada. The fowl that belonged to neighbouring Jhabua and Dhar districts of eastern Madhya Pradesh was introduced in Naxal-affected Dantewada district in large volume only in January this year. But with the government subsidising 90% of Rs 5.23 lakh needed for growing 1,000 birds, the scheme has picked up its momentum: the district has now 76 individual entrepreneurs raising 76,000 birds, with the district administration targeting to up the number to 1.5 lakh by mid-2018. The scheme is such that from the next round — one round is one and half years — the entrepreneur needs to pay 90%, with the rest only being aided by the government.

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The Economic Times, 26 November, 2017, https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/how-kadaknath-chicken-from-naxal-hit-dantewada-could-be-the-new-food-fad/articleshow/61798357.cms


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