HYDERABAD: The poultry industry in the state is making a quick shift from its conventional live chicken business to the newly growing ‘processed chicken’. With the expansion of global fast food outlets such as KFC and McDonald, the poultry industry found a huge scope for enhancing their share in processed chicken market.

Hyderabad: As many as 220 companies, including 40 from overseas, are scheduled to display their products and services at Poultry India 2015 exhibition which will take off in the city on November 25.

Rural demand for eggs, broilers and other poultry products are falling due to drought. Raw material cost, largely feedstock, for farmers has risen significantly; their realisations have not improved.

Entrepreneurs showed interest in dairy and poultry ventures. There is immense potential for food processing in the sector. Emerging market will be for ready-to-eat and ready-to-cook products, said T P Sethumadhavan, Director of Entrepreneurship.

Intake-output trends and growth rates in trained veterinary manpower in India suggest that, the growth rate of the graduate manpower is not commensurate with growth rates of either livestock sector or poultry sector.

Nov 21, 2015- Chicken prices have rebounded with the start of the wedding season after dropping sharply before the Tihar festival. Poultry meat now costs Rs260-Rs265 per kg in the Kathmandu valley, up from Rs220-Rs230 a week ago, according to the Nepal Chicken Sellers Association. 

Brown or white? The state's poultry industry is distraught over an intriguing question on colour of chickens. Amidst increasing demand for poultry products over the years, the scientists and farmers are in a dilemma whether to breed and raise brown chicken or white chicken. 

Only a few years ago ISA, the layer Business Unit of Hendrix Genetics, envisaged an unheard of increase in layer performance. “We were confident that layers would be capable of producing 500 Grade A quality eggs by 2020,” says Jeroen Visscher, Senior Geneticist at Hendrix Genetics.

Lack of effective waste management system has become a serious concern for the State, Governor P. Sathasivam has said.

Addressing the 32nd Annual Conference of Indian Poultry Science Association and National Symposium on “Clean and Green Poultry Production” held at College of Avian Sciences and Management, Thiruvazhamkunnu, on Thursday, he said poultry scientists needed to address this issue in a practical manner.

While it is one of the last quick-service restaurant chains to announce the switch, following a raft of statements by others earlier this year, its speed means that it will deliver on its commitment ahead of Burger King (2017), Starbucks (2020) and McDonald's (2025).

UC Davis today unveiled its new Pastured Poultry Farm, home to 150 young laying chickens and a living laboratory where students and researchers hope to develop innovative solutions benefiting pasture-based poultry farms, integrative crop-and-poultry farms, and backyard flocks.

The news states that the project, which involves the construction of a hatchery, a fodder processing unit and a slaughterhouse, will create over 500 jobs, the foreign investment and public-private partnership department said in a statement after a meeting with officials of the Indian company. 

The Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) is planning to establish poultry parks in association with industry and entrepreneurs, Vice Chancellor B. Ashok has said.

Exports gained steam in the first quarter and are likely to continue growing," he said. "The export record of 440,000 tonnes in July shows an even better prospect for the external market. We may finish 2014 at 5 million tonnes exported, which would result in less poultry meat for the domestic market

U.S. agriculture officials in the coming days will step up efforts to convince China to lift a ban on imports of U.S. poultry that was imposed at the start of the nation's worst-ever outbreak of bird flu, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told Reuters on Tuesday.

South Africa has signed an agreement with the United States to resume import of 65,000 tonnes of chicken each year, which had become bogged down over health concerns, the government said on Tuesday. 

Typhoon Koppu (also known as Typhoon Lando) caused death and destruction in the country in October.But agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said production of chicken grew by 8.77 per cent and chicken eggs by 9.91 per cent.

Poultry farmers on Monday accused the state government for failing to address issues plaguing the poultry sector in the state. Bleeding taxation and rigid licensing systems are forcing the farmers to set up breeding and feed manufacturing units in neighbouring states rather than in Kerala, they told a poultry industry-entrepreneur interface, organised by the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU). 

Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc. opened the application period for the 2016 Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc. College Scholarship Program.Applications are being accepted for undergraduate and graduate scholarships, which are available in the amount of $1,500 or more.