India - The expanding poultry industry
Once considered a hub of chicken and egg business, Gurgaon in the national capital region, has lost poultry business to areas in the interior of Haryana bordering Rajasthan, according to Hindustan Times. From around 250 small and big poultry farms in Gurgaon in 1960s and 1970s, the satellite town is today left with not more than 40 farms, Ricky Thaper, Treasurer of Poultry Federation of India (PFI).
In a bid to cash in on soaring land prices in Gurgaon in 1990s with the boom in real estate business, many poultry owners of the city sold their land at a high rate and purchased bigger areas in interiors of the state like Jajjhar, Bhiwani and Narnaul, about 100km from Gurgaon bordering Rajasthan, Mr Thaper, himself in poultry trade in the town, said.
Some left the trade to enter into more profitable business like property dealing, he said.
So, in place of Gurgaon, the areas bordering Rajasthan have now become nerve centre of broiler and egg production and supply to the national capital.
Haryana and Rajasthan are the leading supplier of chicken to the national capital which runs into several lakhs while major portion of egg, a cheap source of protein, comes to Delhi from Punjab and Haryana, traders said.
Tracing history, Mr Thaper said poultry started on a small scale in Gurgaon in late 1960s and early 1970s where ex-government employees of Delhi adopted poultry as vocation after retirement. They were taught scientific poultry farming and given training at government Poultry Farm in Satbari, Delhi.
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