Abstract
Poultry farming is the natural practice of raising turkeys, chickens, ducks, or geese. The birds are raised for domestic or commercial use, for meat, eggs, and feathers. Chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, ostriches and emus are main types of poultry farms. This paper encounters the problems of poultry formers and their opinions on various issues relating to production and marketing of poultry products. Based on available imperial evidence, the paper includes that it is production and marketing level to continue to promote poultry to contribute towards poultry farm owners and livelihood support but concerted efforts must bemade to find organizational solutions to minimize public health risks and government provide appropriate extension support on issues like disease prevention, predation, improving hatchability, etc,. Unfortunately most government extension programs in the developing countries are not addressing the needs of poor advice to poultry farmers. Poultry is one of the fastest growing fragments of the agricultural sector in India. The reasons behind the fast growth of the segment are growth in income level of the people, a growing urban population and falling real poultry prices. On the other hand increased investments in breeding,hatching, processing has also contributed significantly towards the growth of the industry. Total egg production in India in 2005 was 46 billion. The six southern states - Andhra Pradesh, Talangana, TamilNadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Punjab are the major producing centers.
Highlights
Missionaries in the Bay of Islands were the first recorded poultry farmers in 1814
Per capita consumption of eggs was highest in Andhra Pradesh, Lakshadweep, Punjab and A & N Islands As per the FAO Statistics India is the fourth largest in egg production in the world
According to the reports and surveys conducted by UNDP all over the world, more than 1000 million people suffer from the problem of mal nutrition and come to earn less than 1 US $ per day Before the mid-20th century, poultry meat was very much a by-product of the egg industry the eggs and chicken meat are important and rich sources of
Summary
Missionaries in the Bay of Islands were the first recorded poultry farmers in 1814. The intensive system where birds are kept indoors throughout their productive life was first used in 1915 and soon became the most widespread. According to the reports and surveys conducted by UNDP all over the world, more than 1000 million people suffer from the problem of mal nutrition and come to earn less than 1 US $ per day Before the mid-20th century, poultry meat was very much a by-product of the egg industry the eggs and chicken meat are important and rich sources of. India occupies the second place in the world for egg production and third place in the world for poultry meat production. Many Indian families, the educated people in urban areas, have begun to accept eggs as a regular supplemental part of their vegetarian diet .The forecast surveys indicate that as the present younger generation goes to the adulthood, the acceptability and demand for eggs and chicken meat in 3-4 decades is likely to increase many-folds very rapidly
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