The Indian Council of Agricultural Research has launched several research programmes for the development of Indian Agriculture.  Amongst them All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) on Poultry Improvement has contributed significantly for the development and release of high yielding egg and meat strain crosses for commercial exploitation. Under this programme strains were developed for better performance and adaptability under tropical climatic conditions. One of the promising synthetic strain crosses which has been improved at Project Directorate on Poultry (ICAR), Rajendranagar, Hyderabad is the Krishibro.  The male and female parents of this strain have been obtained from AICRP, Ludhiana and their performance was improved over eight generations by subjecting them for higher juvenile body weight.  In the male parent line, emphasis was given for conformation and high fertility and the female parents for good egg production and hatchability. The commercials from these parents are called krishibro and they attain body weight by 6 weeks of age with less than 2.2 feed conversion ratio.  Krishibro can perform well on the diets containing relatively low nutrient concentration compared to the other commercial broilers available in market.   The survivability of this bird upto 6 weeks of age is around 97%.  These birds have attractive colour plumage and are well adapted to tropical weather conditions.   The commercial Krishibro has high immonucompetence against the common poultry diseases like Ranikhet and Infectious bursal disease. 

The commercial chicks or hatching eggs of Krishibro can be obtained from the Project Directorate on Poultry on advance payment