Rabbit Farming

Domesticated rabbit is the only animal which can produce 10 to 15 times or more of its own body weight in a year through its Progenies. A scientifically cared and well managed Rabbitry can generate good profit within few days.

Poultry Farming

Poultry meat and eggs are important sources of high quality proteins, minerals and vitamins to balance the human diet. Specially bred egg laying chicken are now available which have high growth rate and high feed conversion efficiency. Depending upon the farm size

Poultry turkey farming

Turkey occupies an important position next to chicken, duck. Guinea fowl and quail in contributing the most evolving sector, which is playing a significant role in augmenting the economic and nutritional status of varied population. They form almost two percent of the total poultry population. They are reared for meat only and its meat is the leanest among other domestic avian species.

Goat farming

Goat has been considered as dairy and meat animal for long. For milk it has been given the popular name of poor man’s cow. Goats are small animal easy to manage. Goat can be kept by poor farmers and landless labourers for milk and meat. Got provides a considerable source of income and occupation, specially the economically and socially

Dairy Farming:

Dairy farming is a profitable business. It provides an excellent opportunity for self employment of unemployed youth. It   is also  an important source of income generation to small/marginal farmers and agricultural labourers. India is the largest milk producer of the world. The demand of milk & milk product is increasing rapidly. Milk is an inseparable ingredient of an average Indian’s diet. For most Indians, the day starts with the morning tea laced with milk. In many urban neighbourhoods, queues form at select spots where milk vans unload crates of milk sachets before day breaks. Few sweets or desserts in India are made without milk. Much of the vegetarian Indian population depend on milk and milk derivatives such as butter, cheese, yoghurt, curd, paneer, lassi, clarified butter (ghee) and ice cream for their daily intake of protein, calcium, vitamins and minerals.

1.1 Dairying is an important source of subsidiary income to small/marginal farmers and agricultural labourers. The manure from animals provides a good source of organic matter for improving soil fertility and crop yields. The gober gas from the dung is used as fuel for domestic purposes as also for running engines for drawing water from well. 

Beekeeping

Honey and beekeeping have a long history in India. Honey was the first sweet food tasted by the ancient Indian inhabiting rock shelters and forests. He hunted bee hives for this gift of god. India has some of the oldest records of beekeeping in the form of paintings by prehistoric man in the rock shelters. With the development of civilization, honey acquired an unique status in the lives of the ancient Indians. They regarded honey as a magical substance that controlled the fertility of women, cattle, as also their lands and crops. The recent past has witnessed a revival of the industry in the rich forest regions along the sub-Himalayan mountain ranges and the Western Ghats, where it has been practiced in its simplest form.

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