Vigova Super M, a genus of broiler duck, can be raised in a confined space and grows up to weigh around 2.5 kg in 75 days. Compared to routine duck-rearing methods, the option is quite easy, and the Animal Husbandry department has come up with 10 such ventures that generate maximum profit with minimal effort.
The schemes were presented before 125 Kudumbashree members at a workshop jointly organised by the department and Mukhathala block panchayat in Kollam on International Women’s Day on Tuesday. P.C. Vishnunath, MLA, inaugurated the workshop, while M. Naushad, MLA, delivered the keynote address.
“Goats are usually fed roughage and concentrate and they weigh around 20 kg after one year. Gathering roughage is not always easy and it also takes a lot of time. But there is a method to raise buck kids without roughage. Instead of the usual diet, they are given bypass protein and it bypasses digestion in the rumen. Weaned babies are put on this diet so that the absorption rate is high,” said Livestock Training Centre assistant director D. Shine Kumar, who presented the subject.
