Market for Egg Incubators:
The small egg incubators would be cheap enough for a group of families in Kathmandu to purchase. In the city, people have access to electricity more so than the people living in the rural parts of the country. People would need access to electricity or giant batteries in order to have enough energy to constantly keep the heat lamp on while the chick is developing. Medium-sized eggs incubators could be purchased by a community and rented amongst farmers. Once the eggs have hatched the incubator can be cleaned and sent to the next farm. The farmers would have to have electricity in order to have the incubator. The large industrial incubators have a market for corporate hatcheries in the Nepal poultry industry. Corporations such as Annapurna Hatchery and Hatchery Nepal would be one of the few that would be able to afford a large incubator. Industrial incubators rely solely on electricity and could not be substituted with battery power. During a blackout, the corporations must utilize a backup generator which is very expensive for an average farmer to purchase.
Regional Competition:
China and India are the main countries bordering Nepal with large poultry industries. India has a rapidly growing poultry industry expanding by 8-10% per year. India is 5th in the world for eggs with 133 million laying hens and 18th in the world for chicken meat. With a billion people the market for chicken is huge, driving the price for chicken down to match the price of chicken meat with the rest of the world. India’s main exports concerning poultry are eggs, meat and live birds. The Indian poultry sector employs around 1.6 million people and is still increasing (Metha & Nambiar, 2002). China has a rapidly increasing poultry sector as well. China has around 50 million birds in the meat sector along with 4000 employees (Bingsheng & Yijun, 2016). As of 2010, the annual revenue from broiler meat in China was around 3.84 billion dollars. China is ranked 1st in the world for largest chicken producers (World Knowing 2016). Nepal is very far behind India and China in terms of poultry production since Nepal is ranked 192 in the world. India and China have a large market and their giant poultry industries can sustain the country. Nepal is not large enough to compete in the regional market and would need to find a different country with a smaller poultry industry to export chicken meat.
References
Bingsheng, Ke & Yijun, Han 2016. Poultry Sector in China: structural changes during the past
decade and future trends. Ministry of Agriculture China [online] Available from
http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/home/events/bangkok2007/docs/part1/1_3.pdf (accessed 28 November 2016)
Metha, R & Nambiar, R.G., 2002. Livestock Industrialization, Trade and Social - Health
Environment Impact in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Indian Poultry Sectorle. IFPRI, Print.
World Knowing 2016. Top 10 Chicken Producing Countries in the World. [online] Available
from http://worldknowing.com/top-10-chicken-producing-countries-in-the-world/
ainfo/home/events/bangkok2007/docs/part1/1_3.pdf (accessed 28 November 2016)
The small egg incubators would be cheap enough for a group of families in Kathmandu to purchase. In the city, people have access to electricity more so than the people living in the rural parts of the country. People would need access to electricity or giant batteries in order to have enough energy to constantly keep the heat lamp on while the chick is developing. Medium-sized eggs incubators could be purchased by a community and rented amongst farmers. Once the eggs have hatched the incubator can be cleaned and sent to the next farm. The farmers would have to have electricity in order to have the incubator. The large industrial incubators have a market for corporate hatcheries in the Nepal poultry industry. Corporations such as Annapurna Hatchery and Hatchery Nepal would be one of the few that would be able to afford a large incubator. Industrial incubators rely solely on electricity and could not be substituted with battery power. During a blackout, the corporations must utilize a backup generator which is very expensive for an average farmer to purchase.
Regional Competition:
China and India are the main countries bordering Nepal with large poultry industries. India has a rapidly growing poultry industry expanding by 8-10% per year. India is 5th in the world for eggs with 133 million laying hens and 18th in the world for chicken meat. With a billion people the market for chicken is huge, driving the price for chicken down to match the price of chicken meat with the rest of the world. India’s main exports concerning poultry are eggs, meat and live birds. The Indian poultry sector employs around 1.6 million people and is still increasing (Metha & Nambiar, 2002). China has a rapidly increasing poultry sector as well. China has around 50 million birds in the meat sector along with 4000 employees (Bingsheng & Yijun, 2016). As of 2010, the annual revenue from broiler meat in China was around 3.84 billion dollars. China is ranked 1st in the world for largest chicken producers (World Knowing 2016). Nepal is very far behind India and China in terms of poultry production since Nepal is ranked 192 in the world. India and China have a large market and their giant poultry industries can sustain the country. Nepal is not large enough to compete in the regional market and would need to find a different country with a smaller poultry industry to export chicken meat.
References
Bingsheng, Ke & Yijun, Han 2016. Poultry Sector in China: structural changes during the past
decade and future trends. Ministry of Agriculture China [online] Available from
http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/home/events/bangkok2007/docs/part1/1_3.pdf (accessed 28 November 2016)
Metha, R & Nambiar, R.G., 2002. Livestock Industrialization, Trade and Social - Health
Environment Impact in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Indian Poultry Sectorle. IFPRI, Print.
World Knowing 2016. Top 10 Chicken Producing Countries in the World. [online] Available
from http://worldknowing.com/top-10-chicken-producing-countries-in-the-world/
ainfo/home/events/bangkok2007/docs/part1/1_3.pdf (accessed 28 November 2016)