Steady rise in the price of maize – the prime feed for the poultry birds – in the local market is prompting the poultry farmers to look for alternatives such as importing the feed.In the last six months, the price of maize went up from Rs. 1,300 to Rs. 1,850 per quintal and is fluctuating. The same is the case with the prices of egg, which is getting dwindled in the local and the export market as well. As a result, the poultry farmers are experiencing higher input costs and meagre returns, thus looking for alternatives to reduce the input cost.

Telangana Poultry Federation has urged poultry farmers in the State to place maize indents for it to source their requirement from the five lakh tonne duty free import Union government has allowed.The Federation said this thanking Union Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for waiving the duty. “The Government of India has conceded our request for allowing maize import exempting customs duty ,” president Errabelli Pradeep Kumar Rao said.

Tamil Nadu Egg Poultry Farmers Federation has urged the Central Government to allow import of maize without duty so that the hoarding and price manipulating by traders could be avoided.A delegation led by the federation president P. Muthusamy, vice president V. Subramaniyam and secretary C. Rajendran met C.P. Radhakrishnan, chairman, Coir Board, Ministry of MSME, and urged him to take up the issue with the Centre.

HYDERABAD: Roadside small poultry meat sellers will find it difficult to sell live birds in the capital region in coming days as the State government has decided to impose a blanket ban on slaughtering of live birds in open area in the Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) jurisdiction.

The egg prices have been moving up and the trend is expected to continue till the commencement of Shravan month that begins on 20th July. During this period, the demand for eggs declines and would recover after the festival season is over in late November.

With temperature expected to drop in the coming days, the feed intake in poultry is expected to increase.A press release from the Agromet Field Unit of Veterinary College and Research Institute said that the sky will be generally cloudy with chance of scattered rainfall in the next three days.Maximum and minimum temperature will be 34 degree Celsius (93.2 degree Fahrenheit) and 24 degree Celsius (75.2 degree Fahrenheit) respectively

Visakhapatnam: With an eye on becoming the biggest egg and poultry meat producing state in the country, the AP government has announced the Poultry Development Policy and also has planned an investment of around Rs 575 crore over a period of the next four years in the state.

Though eggs have been considered as the complete food with most of the nutrients necessary for the body, concerns over its cholesterol content have kept many at bay.

Now, a group of farmers under the NABARD-supported Kisan Jyothi Farmers Club (KJFC) at Vaduvanchal in Wayanad have come out with designer eggs, which they claim will settle the apprehension once and for all. They say their ‘Omega’ brand eggs solve the riddle and set to rest doubts of the cholesterol-conscious.

The sky is likely to remain cloudy with chances of isolated rainfall in the next two days, and it will favour poultry.A press release from Agromet Field Unit of Veterinary College and Research Institute and Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai, said that the maximum and minimum temperature will be 36 degree Celsius (96.8 degree Fahrenheit) and 25 degree Celsius (77 degree Fahrenheit) respectively.Wind speed will be around 8 km per hour, mostly from west direction.

SRINAGAR, JUNE 16- Jammu and Kashmir  Poultry Farmers Coordination Committee today met Daljit Singh Chib, Vice Chairman , J&K State Advisory Board for Development of Kisans and apprised him about the difficulties they are facing in their day to day work.  They informed him that their trade is in distress due to the fact that some outside poultry dealers have developed a new way of business by importing dressed birds instead of live birds on which presently there is no toll/tax due to which local farmers are compelled to sell their products on losses as such the poultry industry is at the verge of collapse.

Though temperature is expected to be slightly high in the next two days, wind speed will keep away from the heat stress in poultry.A press release from the Agromet Field Unit of Veterinary College and Research Institute here and Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai said that the sky will be generally cloudy with chances of isolated rainfall.

Hyderabad: Despite a ban imposed by the Union agriculture ministry on using growth hormones, poultry are being fed the same for commercial exploitation. The severe summer took a huge toll on the birds and many of them died of virus attacks. Poultry owners are now injecting growth hormones, hoping to make up for their losses. An estimated 10,000 fully grown birds have died in the 25 authorised centres. A poultry owner said on condition of anonymity, “Some of the owners are desperate and want to recover their losses. Hence they are resorting to injecting hormones.”

High input costs and the ongoing drought conditions have resulted in all-time high prices of broiler birds across the state. The farmgate prices of a 2-2.5 kg bird has now crossed the Rs 104 mark, making it an all-time high for the industry.Vasantkumar Shetty, conveyor, All India Broiler Co-ordination Committee, said over the past few days, prices of broiler has been on the higher side due to dip in supply.

With the onset of southwest monsoon, the day time temperature will favour poultry production in the district for the next three days.A press release from Agromet Field Unit of Veterinary College and Research Institute and Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai, said that the sky will remain partly cloudy, with chances of isolated rainfall.

Indian soyabean futures dropped on Tuesday on hopes of a boost in output after the weather office predicted an above-average monsoon and on weak export demand for oilmeals. The July soyabean contract on the National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange fell 0.59 percent to 3,880 Indian rupees ($58.14) per 100 kg.

With wind speed and cloud cover expected to be seen in increasing level in the next three days, poultry farmers are instructed to be careful about the aflatoxin content while procuring maize and groundnut cake.

In order to revive the tradition of backyard poultry farming, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ganderbal, held a training programme, “Scientific Management of backyard poultry birds under field conditions” for poultry rears, a statement issued by the Kendra said. Around thirty farmers and farmwomen interested in poultry farming participated in the training programme and four hundred poultry birds were distributed among the participating farmers.

Rajpura (Patiala): The Patiala administration has decided to conduct a survey to find out how many poultry farms existed in the district, especially in villages around Rajpura. Residents of these villages have been protesting, seeking closure of poultry farms in their areas, citing foul smell and spread of disease.

Soybean prices today improved by Rs 31 to Rs 3,906 per quintal in futures trading as participants widened their position at the existing level. At the National Commodity and Derivative Exchange, soybean for delivery in July month contracts was trading higher by Rs 31, or 0.80 per cent, to Rs 3,906 per quintal, with an open interest of 57,580 lots.