I am landless and my family depends on wage labour. Staff from the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation encouraged me to take up backyard poultry as part of Faming System for Nutrition and provided information about it. I learnt that eggs, chicken, pulses provide proteins and consumption of iron rich vegetables will reduce malnutrition. I decided to take up backyard poultry activity. In 2016, I received 16 chicks of Vanraj, Giriraj, Swarnadhara and RIR breeds, an iron cage of size 3 x 2 feet and 25 kg feed for the birds;  I paid INR 1500 as 50 per cent cost of the package.