Agriculture Business management : Poultry Farming

When you go to any Non-vegan restaurant around the world and crave for dish like tandoori chicken, chicken kabab, chicken tikka have you ever wondered where the raw ingredients comes from. The answer is very simple "Agriculture" of which Poultry farming has become one the fastest growing industry in recent years. This industry has always has had a stable income except for the period when people where afraid of consuming "fowl".
In this blog we will research about this particular sector in detail in Indian conditions.
 First let us discuss regarding life cycle of a Chicken.

After a hen lays a fertile egg it takes about 3 weeks for eggs to hatch, and in about three months chicks become adults, and start breeding and laying eggs.
There are two major business models in poultry farming
1) Broiler Chicken Purpose
2) Egg
Many of the private companies/firms like suguna, venky,s chicken, godrej agrovet, Quality and other going for a contract farming with local farmers where they provide 2-3 days old chicks and all raw materials including vaccination and later after about 45-60 days they buy adults back, they usually pay around Rs3.5 to Rs5 per Kg of adult.
This is becoming a popular model in India. People/farmers who have a lot of money they can construct there own poultry farms and young entrepreneurs who don't have much initial investment can avail financial assistance from NABARD. There are many public and private sector banks who do project financing.
Lately, there are many young   entrepreneurs who are getting poultry farms on rent and making some handsome profits
I will write about Economics of Broiler farming and Farming for egg purpose in next blog.
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