Sri Vijaya Puram, Feb. 28: With the aim to promote poultry keeping for income generation and sustainable livelihood, the Department of AH&VS provides hands on training and inputs to the farmers/unemployed youth/ women candidate through the Departmental farms established in different parts of the Islands.

Duck keeping, and vanraja birds have been promoted as backyard poultry due to low cost of production and their ability to thrive in free range condition. The dual purpose breed of poultry vanraja birds and ducks are known for their egg production as well as meat and therefore, gained popularity among the rural farmers. It is a source of livelihood while it contributes the protein requirement in nutrition.