New Delhi: India has offered to partially open up its poultry and dairy markets in a bid for a limited trade deal during US President Donald Trump's first official visit to the country this month, sources familiar with the protracted talks told news agency Reuters. India, the world's largest milk-producing nation, has traditionally restricted dairy imports to protect the livelihoods of 80 million rural households involved in the industry. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying to pull all the stops for the US President's Feb. 24-25 visit, aimed at rebuilding bonds between the world's larg ..read more

The Union Ministry of Animal Husbandry has clarified that consumption of chicken will not cause coronavirus. The ministry commissioner, in a letter to the Poultry Federation of India, stated that there had been no reports as yet of novel Coronavirus (nCoV) transmitting through an animal source ..read more

Denmark-based Brødrene Hartmann A/S (Hartmann) has entered into an agreement to fully acquire Punjab-based Mohan Fibre Products Ltd, a provider of moulded fibre packaging for fruits and poultry in India. Hartmann said it has agreed to acquire Mohan Fibre for Danish Krones(DKK) 119 million (around $17.55 million, or Rs 125.22 crore at current exchange rates), the company said in a filing with Nasdaq Copenhagen ..read more

NAMAKKAL: The plan hatched by the poultry farmers to stage a protest in front of the National Egg Coordination committee Zonal office at Namakkal came out ugly for the NECC as for the past few days the office is shut down by the protestors ..read more

As the dreaded coronavirus (nCoV) continues to spread, the poultry industry is wary of what they say is a misinformation campaign linking broiler meat with the spread of the virus. A section of the industry has sought government help to fight this campaign, which they say has affected the consumption of poultry meat by as much as 50 per cent. On Wednesday, a section of the industry filed a complaint with the cyber cell of Pune police seeking action against people spreading misinformation ..read more

Namakkal: Nearly a week after it started to fix egg prices thrice a week, the National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC) on Thursday reversed to its previous method of fixing prices daily, but with a change in timing. According to NECC chairman Dr P Selvaraj, the decision was taken as the retail egg traders were not following the price fixed by them ..read more

If you are planning to start a poultry farm and looking for banks or financial institutions that can help you with this then keep reading this article. Animal husbandry is an important branch of agriculture and many farmers depend upon it for their livelihood hence to boost the development in this area, Government along with national and private banks offer loans to farmers engaged in this field. Below we have listed top banks providing loans for Poultry Farming in India ..read more

Poultry Federation of India partners with Right To Protein, a public initiative to increase awareness about adequate consumption of protein in daily Indian diets. On the 71st Republic Day, this association will further help Right To Protein to champion the cause to make right to adequate nutrition through protein sufficiency as a foundational and basic right of the citizens of the Indian republic. It is a crucial step to fight all evils of the society and the lack of adequate protein is a major cause of malnourishment and under-growth amongst all children, women, elderly as well as burgeoning ..read more

India imposes a 100 percent import tax on chicken products and a 30 percent duty on whole chickens, too high for countries such as Brazil and the United States to gain a foothold in the market, where the poultry industry is growing at more than 10 percent a year ..read more

HARYANA’s poultry industry, which supplies eggs and chicken to various states, including Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, UP, Rajasthan, Delhi and Bihar, besides Jammu and Kashmir, is in a tight spot due to the rise in feed prices that has led to a higher production cost of broiler chicken and eggs ..read more