Domestic Poultry Incubator for micro-poultry farming


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Creator/Artist: Hirom Ulemba Meetei

Category: Product Design

Document: P3 Project

Batch: 2014-2016

Source: India,   IDC

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Purba Joshi


Detailed Description

Although India is one of the major countries in poultry production, it has not been able to meet the increasing demands of the nation completely. In many cases, this has led the poultry industry to use artificial drugs and steroid for faster growth. Hence people are diverting to healthier options such as organic eggs and chicken. This opens up an opportunity for rural areas to critically look at their methods of backyard poultry farming, which they have been following from ages. The project mainly aims at uplifting the socio-economic status of the villager through self employment. It focuses on putting relevant technology and design intervention in developing a sustainable poultry incubator which would be less dependent on electricity. The early phase of the project mainly includes addressing the problems in rural context , a research on various available incubator and the different technology which are used This is supported by a field study to Central Poultry Development Organization, Aarey colony Mumbai. In the later stage of the project, the concept is further narrow down with the help of various design method including brainstorming, idea sketching , concept evaluation , mock up model user feedbacks etc. Finally as a deliverable of the project a concept of modular domestic incubator which have a hybrid power system with both solar energy and electricity is suggested with a f maximum of 96 eggs capacity . A simple business module is also suggested which complement the idea of micro-poultry farming in community level.