CENTRAL POULTRY DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATIONS

CENTRAL POULTRY DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATIONS have been playing a pivotal role in the implementation of the policies of the government with respect to poultry as a tool for alleviating nutritional hunger and palliating the impecuniosities of the resource-poor farmers especially the women. The mandate of these organisations has been
specifically rev~ed, by restructuring all poultry units of this Department to focus on improved indigenous birds, which lay on an average 180-200 eggs per annum and have a vastly improved FCR ratio in terms of feed consumption and weight gain. The organisations have been entrusted with the responsibility of _producing excellent germplasm in the form of day old chicks and hatching eggs of these varieties like Nirbheek, Hitkari, Vanaraja, Shyama Cari, CHABRO, etc., imparting training to approximately 1200­1500 farmers every year both in-situ and ex-situ and playing a crucial role in analysing feed samples.

A new scheme "Dairy/ Poultry venture Capital Fund" has been launched during the year 2004-05, wherein there is a provision to grant subsidy on interest payment. Components like establishment of poultry breeding farm with low input technology birds and also for ducks/ turkey / guinea fowl/quail/emu / ostrich, etc., establish­ment of feed godown, feed mill, feed analytical laboratory, marketing of poultry products (specialised transport ve­hicles, cool room storage facilities and retention sheds for birds, etc.), egg-grading, packing and storage for export capacity, retail poultry dressing unit (300 birds, per day), egg/broiler carts for sale of poultry products and Central grower unit, etc., are considered for financing under this scheme. The nodal agency for the implementation of this scheme is NABARD through nationalised commercial banks.