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The Poultry Industry in Nepal:
The poultry industry accounts for 3-4% of Nepal’s GDP per year. Nepal is ranked 112th in the world for chicken meat production and 92nd in the world for egg production. Family backyard poultry production is most common for urban and rural farmers throughout the country. Over the past few years the corporate poultry sector has expanded rapidly. Corporate poultry farms employ around 70,000 people and produce 150,000 kg of chicken meat per day (Shrestha, 2014). Between 2002 to 2012, the number of birds in the poultry industry increased from 21.37 million to 45.17 million birds (Shrestha, 2014). With the growth in the poultry industry in Nepal, there is now a total of 98 different hatcheries. Annapurna Hatchery and Hatchery Nepal are examples of two major hatcheries in Nepal (Directory of Nepal, 2016).
References:
Directory of Nepal 2016. List of Poultry Farms in Katmandu. Directory of Nepal [Online]
Available from http://www.directoryofnepal.com/category.php?submajorid=193&submajorname=Agriculture&minorid=558&minorname=Poultry+Farm&district=Kathmandu#show (accessed 21 November 2016)
Shrestha, Krishna Bahadur 2014, Poultry Sector Nepal. Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations [online] Available from http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3964e.pdf (accessed 22 November 2016)
The poultry industry accounts for 3-4% of Nepal’s GDP per year. Nepal is ranked 112th in the world for chicken meat production and 92nd in the world for egg production. Family backyard poultry production is most common for urban and rural farmers throughout the country. Over the past few years the corporate poultry sector has expanded rapidly. Corporate poultry farms employ around 70,000 people and produce 150,000 kg of chicken meat per day (Shrestha, 2014). Between 2002 to 2012, the number of birds in the poultry industry increased from 21.37 million to 45.17 million birds (Shrestha, 2014). With the growth in the poultry industry in Nepal, there is now a total of 98 different hatcheries. Annapurna Hatchery and Hatchery Nepal are examples of two major hatcheries in Nepal (Directory of Nepal, 2016).
References:
Directory of Nepal 2016. List of Poultry Farms in Katmandu. Directory of Nepal [Online]
Available from http://www.directoryofnepal.com/category.php?submajorid=193&submajorname=Agriculture&minorid=558&minorname=Poultry+Farm&district=Kathmandu#show (accessed 21 November 2016)
Shrestha, Krishna Bahadur 2014, Poultry Sector Nepal. Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations [online] Available from http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3964e.pdf (accessed 22 November 2016)
