Highly Educated Youth Sudhir Pawar Earns 3 Lakh Profit from Poultry and Farming

• Sudhir Pawar, a highly educated youth from Dahagaon, Shahapur taluka, chose entrepreneurship over a job, focusing on poultry farming and vegetable cultivation.
• He started with just five country chickens in his one-acre mango orchard, expanding the venture to 2000 chickens within three years.
• The chickens are raised in an open, pure environment using traditional methods, requiring no vaccines or medicines, leading to high demand.
• A fully grown country chicken sells for 1500 rupees per kilogram, and traditional country eggs fetch 30 rupees each, compared to 8 rupees for broiler eggs.
• Sudhir earns an annual profit of 3 lakh rupees from this supplementary business, inspiring other youth to pursue entrepreneurship.

Why It Matters: Sudhir Pawar's success in traditional poultry farming demonstrates the profitability of rural entrepreneurship.