Poultry

POULTRY

  • Poultry sector, with total value of output exceeding Rs.26,000 crore and providing direct and indirect employment to over three million people, produced around 1.9 MT of chicken-meat in 2005.
  • Between the 1970 and 2006, the annual per capita availability of eggs has quadrupled from 10 to 41, while the corresponding increase in chicken meat has been even faster from 146 grams to 1.6 kgs.
  • While India’s share of world trade in poultry and poultry products continues to be very small, in the last decade the value of such exports has increased from Rs.11 crore in 1993-94 to Rs. 326 crore in 2005-06.
  • Exports of products, such as live poultry, eggs, hatching eggs, frozen eggs, egg powder and poultry meat, to countries including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Middle East, Japan, Denmark, Poland, USA and Angola augurs well for the industry.
  • Uninterrupted supplies of feed as well as preparedness for external shocks such as avian influenza are critical for the continued robust growth of this sector.
Last modified: Saturday, 2 June 2012, 7:16 AM