If it is sold for Rs 20-22, there will be reasonable profit,” said a former officer of Kepco. The production cost at Kepco is Rs 13/chick. Still, this production of breeder stock constitutes a negligible three per cent of Kerala’s needs.
The agreement with Venky’s requires annual renewal. This totals around three lakh eggs and 2.75 lakh chicks a month. “Kepco has a tie-up with Venky’s to produce breeder stock of 10,000 chicks per day. Sadly, the Kerala State Poultry Development Corporation (Kepco), the 14 poultry farms under the Animal Husbandry Department, 12 hatcheries and the two universities dealing in poultry research - at Mannuthy and Pookode in Wayanad - are still taking baby steps in this direction, said former deputy director of the Animal Husbandry Department N Shudhodhanan. The need for parent stock arises as the broiler birds transported to Kerala do not hatch. Of this, close to 70 per cent of birds and one crore eggs are brought from Tamil Nadu daily.
Sample this: The Economics and Statistics Department, in its 2017 report based on checkpost arrivals, has said Kerala daily consumes five lakh broiler birds (1.5 crore birds per month) and 1.5 crore eggs. “In the wake of the implementation of GST, an alternative before Kerala is to develop the parent stock by either securing a tie-up with Indian corporate bodies or foreign partners and opening poultry feed production divisions,” said B Ajith Babu of the College of Avian Sciences and Management, Thiruvazhamkunnu.
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