Kudumbashree district mission pilots ‘Kunjaadu’ in Vembayam for animal husbandry promotion

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Vembayam grama panchayat president   Amitha Babu (right) handing implicit    a goat kid   to Pushpakumari (left), a beneficiary, astatine  the inauguration of Kunjaadu scheme.

Vembayam grama panchayat president Amitha Babu (right) handing implicit a goat kid to Pushpakumari (left), a beneficiary, astatine the inauguration of Kunjaadu scheme.

The Kudumbashree territory ngo has piloted a goat-rearing strategy successful Vembayam grama panchayat of Nedumangad artifact successful Thiruvananthapuram territory to summation the engagement of neighbourhood groups successful carnal husbandry activities.

This follows a grading of Kudumbashree neighbourhood groups (NHGs) according to their level of carnal husbandry enactment arsenic portion of ALIVE (Acquiring Livelihood successful Veterinary Enterprise) inaugural and steps to amended the people of those with the slightest involvement.

Accordingly, the Nedumangad artifact rolled retired Kunjaadu strategy nether the Vembayam assemblage improvement nine (CDS). Under the project, an NHG successful the class of slightest engagement successful carnal husbandry is identified and 1 of its economically backward members is selected arsenic a beneficiary. A bully prime goat kid is purchased utilizing the CDS’ ain money and handed implicit to the beneficiary for rearing. Once the kid becomes an big and has young ones of its own, 1 of the kids is sold to repay the CDS loan, portion the 2nd kid is fixed to different beneficiary for rearing. The adjacent clip the goat has kids, the archetypal beneficiary tin proceed to rear them.

The 2nd beneficiary, successful turn, volition rear the kid they got and erstwhile it gives birth, manus implicit 1 of the kids to a 3rd beneficiary.

The Kudumbashree territory ngo expects the inaugural to relation similar a concatenation system. An summation successful the fig of beneficiaries is expected to pb to a gradual emergence successful livestock population.

The beneficiaries volition beryllium formed into a clump and the Kudumbashree carnal husbandry assemblage assets persons volition show them and supply them enactment done classes. Cluster-level classes by doctors and vaccination for the animals volition besides beryllium provided, accidental Kudumbashree territory ngo officials.

After Vembayam, Kunjaadu volition beryllium extended to different CDSs successful the Nedumangad block. Other blocks specified arsenic Parassala and Perumkadavila excessively person evinced involvement successful the project, accidental the Kudumbashree officials.

Pushpakumari, a dairy husbandman and subordinate of Thanal NHG nether the Vembayam CDS, is the recipient of the archetypal goat kid arsenic portion of the scheme.

Kunjaadu is the archetypal signifier of the Special Innovation Project launched by the Kudumbashree territory ngo with the purpose of sustainable improvement successful the carnal husbandry assemblage successful 11 blocks of Thiruvananthapuram district.

Published - June 11, 2026 10:23 p.m. IST

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