Tickle your taste buds with Kadaknath Chicken at Jagat Mukherjee Park

Kolkata: Food lovers in the city will for the first time get the opportunity to relish delicacies prepared from Kadaknath Chicken at a puja pandal in the city.

West Bengal Comprehensive Area Development Corporation (WBCADC) will put up a food stall at the Durga Puja venue of Jagat Mukherjee Park which will be selling food items prepared from stuffs procured directly from the farmers who have received assistance from the corporation.

This is the first of its kind initiative by WBCADC.

"Dishes made from Kadaknath Chicken, Turkey and desi chicken from farms at Haringhata in Nadia, black Bengal goat meat from Siliguri, eggs of swan, chara chameli duck will be the main attraction of the stall that we are putting up. We have

plans to launch these products in a greater way at the Ahare Bangla Food Festival of the state government scheduled to be held in November," said a senior official of WBCADC said.

Kadaknath Chicken is known for its exquisite taste and high nutrient value. Madhya Pradesh has won Geographical Indication (GI) tag for Kadaknath, an indigenous chicken breed found in tribal-dominated Jhabua district in the state. The state government is planning to undertake Kadaknath chicken farming in large-scale .

Items prepared from fishes at Tamluk, mushroom at Siliguri, dheki chatta chal popularly known as Brown Rice – all cultivated under the supervision of WBCADC will also be available at the food stall.

The spices like turmeric and chilli powder produced by farmers registered under CADC at Tamluk will be used for cooking.

"We are planning to develop a food chain to popularize these products," the official added.

It may be mentioned that CADC is an autonomous organization under the aegis of the Panchayat department which works for area based rural development through increased agricultural and allied production ensuring maximum benefit of such production to the cultivators.

CADC has projects at 24 different places in the state spanning in almost all the districts of Bengal. Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Fishery, Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) etc are some areas in which schemes have been taken up by CADC.