Navapur...the Real Crisis...

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Selling one chicken per week in the local market....that earns you enough to suffice for a week.....combined with the little grains that you have saved from the three months of farming each year. Well, that's how the local tribals in the area of Navapur in teh Nadndurbagh survive all through the year. They just have enough chicken to sell each month and rear more for the next few months. Now look at this, 80 per cent of the population of this place either directly or indirectly depend on poultry farming. Besides the tribals and the locals, there are also poultry farm owners who have spent a huge amount of capital investment to set up what's now been destroyed by the Bird flu scare. Six days in the area just fills you with stories of desperation from people who have lost all they have. And primarily....