Poultry
Over the last few years, the Indian poultry farming industry has been growing steadily with an annual growth rate of 20%. The present worth of India’s poultry industry is more than Rs.70, 000 million. The industry is also a source of bread and butter for over 700,000 people. A number of factors have helped this industry to flourish. Significant among them are, growing demand for a low priced source of protein-rich nutrients provided by eggs and chickens, low maintenance cost and minimum space requirements, chickens adapt easily to almost any condition and profits are quite high. The whole concept of poultry farming during the last two decades or so has undergone a sea change. The poultry industry has now emerged as a highly structured and market-oriented enterprise.
For people with limited capital and willing to set up organised business ventures of their own, poultry farming can be considered a career choice. Typical work in a poultry farm involves various tasks related to management of the farm like, breeding and rearing of chicks, preventing, diagnosing and controlling disease, feed formulation and analysis, marketing etc.
