Poultry Business in Kerala:
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Looking for a business proposition in Kerala? then the best bet would be to engage in Indian poultry business in Kerala. This is because as there is an annual shortage of close to 300 crore eggs in the state. The shortage is covered by importing the eggs from the other southern states. The state of Kerala faces lack not supply in comparison to the demand of eggs. There are more consumers than the production of eggs.
According to a top official of the state owned Kerala State Poultry Development Corporation (Kepco), there is an annual requirement of 565 crore eggs in the state and of these the domestic production is around 260 crore only which clearly shows the lack of supply in comparison to the demand of eggs.
Sukumaran Nair, top marketing official of Kepco said that their efforts to increase the production of Indian poultry in the past five years has seen a rise of around 75 crore eggs in Kerala.
He further pointed out that Kepco to put pedals to further increase the production of Indian poultry eggs has now taken up the distribution of chicks belonging to a breed of B.V.380 which is capable of laying 300 eggs a year.
This particular breed also has been found to withstand health issues and after it is done with laying eggs, each bird has a weight of more than 2 kg, which is also extra money.
Kepco of late has joined hands with the Local Self Government and is giving cages and chicks to interested farmers and expects to further narrow the gap of consumption and import of eggs from other states.
Source: The New Indian Express
