Recent Trend in Poultry Farms

Abstract: Indian poultry industry is one of the fastest growing segments of the agricultural sector today in India. As the production of agricultural crops has been rising at a rate of 1.5 to 2% per annual while the production of eggs and broilers has been rising at a rate of to 10% per annual. Today India is world’s fifth largest egg producer and the eighteenth largest producer of broilers. The Indian poultry industry has undergone a paradigm shift in structure and apevation a very significant feature of Indian’s poultry industry is its transformation from a mere backyard activity into a major commercial activity in just about four decades which seems to be really fast. The kind of transformation has involved sizeable investment in breeding, hatching, rearing and processing. Indian farmers have moved from rearing non-descript birds to today’s rearing hybrids such as Hyaline, Shaver and Babcock which ensure faster growth, good liveability, excellent feed conversion and high profits to the rearers. The Indian poultry industry has grown largely due to the initiative of private, enterprises minimal government intervention, and very considerable indigenous poultry genetics capabilities and supports from the complementary veterinary health, poultry feed, poultry equipment and poultry processing sectors. India is one of the few countries in the world that has put into place a sustained specific pathogen free (SPF) egg production projects.