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Status of Poultry industry
in Sri Lanka
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What is Non Ruminant ?
• The animal with single stomach compartment
(No complex stomach with rumen and no rumination)
poultry pigs
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Simple stomach Complex stomach
in non ruminant in ruminant
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Poultry
• Any bird reared or hunted for a useful purpose and it is
member of the bird group collectively known as poultry
• They have more specialized digestive tracts
• Rearing as a subcategory of animal husbandry, for the
purpose of farming meat or eggs for food
• Useful species of poultry
- Fowl - Turkey
- Ducks - Geese
- Guinea fowl- Pigeons
- Quails - Ostrich
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Domestic Fowl Turkey
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Ducks
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Pigeon
Quails
Guinea fowl
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Purposes of rearing
• eggs
• meat
• feathers
• considered to be game bird
• ornamentation
• Minor uses:
– Leather
– Oil
– alarm calling
– landscaping
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Poultry Industry in Sri Lanka
• Industry Developed from backyard system to
commercial industry
• Major rearing specie is chicken/ domestic fowl
• Two sectors
– Layer/ egg production
– Broiler/ meat production
• Spread mainly in “poultry belt”, it include
Puttlam, Kurunegala, Kalutara
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• In 1950 – Government started improving the
indigenous chicken.
• Most developed livestock sector – private
sector involvement.
• Prominent – Broiler industry
• Government involve in - Health
management, research and policy
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Chicken meat and egg
• Producers can supply all the local chicken m
& e requirement.
• Available at small scale retail market to
supermarket
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• Branded broiler chicken is marketed through 15
large and medium scale broiler processors.
• Already four (04) broiler processors and five
(05) further processing companies have
obtained certification under internationally
accepted HACCP system.
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• Two (02) local grand-parent farms produce
around 70% of country’s requirements of
parent birds.
• Major problem face by farmers is high feed
cost
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Livestock population (Sri Lanka)
2007 2008 2009 2010
cattle 1,206,490 1,195,610 1,136,860 1,169,670
buffalo 318,310 318,530 371,790 422,650
pigs 94,210 89,420 81,310 83,785
goat 388,600 376,790 377,460 373,465
sheep 16,480 10,450 8,000 7,910
chicken 13,778,610 1,4331,170 13,615,290 14,018,320
duck 16,050 18,740 15,244 13,485
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Per Capita Availability 2001-2010 (Kg. per year)
Commodity/Year 2008 2009 2010
Beef 1.1 1.12 1.34
Pork 0.08 0.08 0.07
Mutton (Goat and Sheep) 0.07 0.07 0.08
Poultry 5.19 4.86 4.99
Total 6.44 6.13 6.48
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Production, exports and imports
Item 2007 2008 2009 2010
Production of eggs (m) * 1,252.00 1,380.00 1,099.00 941.47
Availability of Chicken Meat
(`000 MT) 100.06 102.5 99.28 104.16
Chicken & Chicken
Products (MT) 113.8 1,161.70 1,513.90 661.87
Exports Eggs (m) 0.76 0.64 0.49 0.77
Chicken & Chicken
Products ( MT) 1,210 2,665 1004 1235.14
Imports Table Eggs (m) - - 0.1
Hatching Eggs(m) - - - 0.34
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Significance / Importance
• Source of income
– As whole farming, mix farming, part time business
• Source of food
– Eggs and meat are cheapest protein source
– High palatability and digestibility
• Industrial uses
– Egg shell: production of mineral mixture
– Fertile eggs: vaccine production
• Research uses due to,
– Low feed intake, small body size, fast metabolism
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Social, cultural and environmental aspects
• Cultural toboos
• Environmental pollution
• Improper waste disposal
• Etc………
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Potentials for future development
• Well organized market structure
• Private sector involvement in breeding, feed
manufacturing, health, processing, etc..
• Extra income
• Women can involve
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Refference (web sites)
• www.daph.gov.lk
• Department of census and statistics
• Ministry of livestock and rural development
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