February 10, 2014

India's Uttar Pradesh state initiates scheme to boost poultry production

India's Uttar Pradesh state,  the largest state of the Indian Republic, has initiated schemes to attract poultry production entrepreneurs leading in poultry production in other states and others who may be interested.

The government has offered 10% interest subvention to the new entrepreneurs who start layer units of 30,000 birds and broiler breeding units of 10,000 birds. They also offered faster clearances on land acquisition and power supplies to the new units. The state government has advised the banks to lend more money to the new poultry units.

The result is that the daily egg production has already gone up by 1.00 million eggs per day and by the second half of the year 2014, production of broiler chicks with in the state will commence.

The state government has implemented the rural backyard poultry scheme sponsored by the central government and three million dual purpose, multi-coloured low input "Rainbow Rooster" chicks were distributed in 77 districts at 40,000 chicks per district.

These three million chicks must have added at least 1.5 million kilogrammes of chicken and another 1.5 million layer birds on the way to produce eggs in the rural house hold augmenting the nutritional status of the low income groups in the state.

Neighbouring states like Bihar have also hastened their efforts to utilise the centrally sponsored schemes in poultry production.

Uttar Pradesh has been receiving all sorts of poultry inputs such as table eggs from South India and broiler chicken and chicks from the neighbouring states of Madhya Pradesh in the south, West Bengal in the east and Haryana in the North.

The production figures for chicken and eggs in India for the year 2015 should look much better than anticipated.