author(s)
Dr. Narayan Sahu, Virendra Kumar, SK Dhruw and Samir Kumar Patre

abstract
The experiment was conducted in the farm of Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Dantewada in the year of 2016-17 and “Kadaknath Poultry Farming Project” was implemented by District Administration Dantewada (DMF) in order to empowerment of woman and uplifting of tribal’s farmers of the district as well as conservation of endangered breed “The Kadaknath. KVK Dantewada has provided 203 Kadaknath poultry farms to SHG’s of woman, man and individual farmers. In addition, KVK also established eight (8) Kadaknath breeding unit and hatchery unit with the capacity of 12000 eggs. The experiment has found that beneficiaries of the project have highly benefited by poultry farming such as; Champa atami (Kasoli) followed by Bosaram atami (Kasoli) and Ramprasad veko (Bade Karali) getting annul income around Rs. 2.90, 2.82 and 2.87 Rs. in lakh respectively. KVK also maintained the data of egg and birds production of Kadaknath in the farm and played a vital role in supply and distribution of birds to the beneficiary’s farmers of the district. Maximum production of eggs and chicks were obtained from the cold season followed by rainy and summer season. Production of eggs and birds was recorded at the end of the year as 68,822 and 46,391 respectively. Where hatching reduction of the chicks were ranges between 20-30 percent resulting as mortality of 15,208 chicks and damaging of eggs recorded as 3,024 annually.