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Backyard poultry

Traditional poultry rearing generally undertaken by women of poor, marginalized house-holds. The birds are raised in a scavenging/ semi-scavenging system, for household nutrition and food, and supplementary income. Usually small flocks of one to ten desi (non-descript)/ indigenous/improved birds are raised in homestead areas or on farms close to homestead areas.