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Impact on Poultry industry

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IMPACT ON POULTRY INDUSTRY

WORLD

-Better ‘biosecurity’

The U.S., the largest exporters of poultry meat has stepped up surveillance of the hundreds of millions of chickens and turkeys grown on farms throughout the U.S. Industry experts stress that, unlike the “backyard” production methods used in Asia, where roaming fowl make

frequent contact with humans and other migratory birds, U.S. poultry farming isolates its flocks through various layers of “biosecurity” designed to prevent the spread of disease. (Even so-called “free range” chickens do not, in fact, roam free on a range; they’re raised in small, closed pens and not allowed to mingle with migratory birds.)

To check the spread of the disease to the U.S., the Department of Agriculture has banned imports of live birds and eggs from infected countries and is quarantining and testing all imported birds before letting them in the country. Poultry meat from some Asian nations is also required to be processed or cooked under USDA requirements to lower the risk of contamination.

American poultry farmers served up $29 billion worth of birds last year, some 24 percent more than in 2003. The Bird Flu scare has reduced the figures considerably.

Effects on the Poultry Industry

• more concentrated markets, with fewer, larger producers

• poultry production zones where infrastructure can be concentrated

• compartments for exporting countries, arranged in such a way that a minor outbreak of an exporting compartment will hardly affect export

• live markets moved to the outskirts of cities, with fewer licensed traders, centralised slaughtering and a large number of supermarket outlets in cities

• fewer small producers

• requirements to fence and house all poultry

INDIA

-Estimated Loss in India: Rs 10 crore

-Bird Flu has not just affected the poultry industry financially, temporarily but will have long term effects on the industry in terms of hesitance of people to but chicken and egg. The recent nine cases in nine districts in West Bengal that have cost the state an estimated cost of Rs 10 crore at the least.

-The National Egg Coordination Committee, the association that represents egg production in the country decided to reduce the egg sales by 25% in its annual meet in Andhra Pradesh to counter the losses.

-The price of eggs came down as a result of bird flu. For instance, in Manipur, the prices for 100 eggs fell from Rs 150 to Rs 145. In Delhi, 100 eggs prices sank from Rs 200 to Rs 140 and in Bangalore, Rs 195 to Rs 170 for the same number of eggs.

-The prices of broiler chicken and eggs crashed by 25-30 percent as a result of the bird flu, which is equivalent to Rs 50 to Rs 38 a kg.

-The poultry industry faces its greatest crisis at a time when the demand is at its highest, that is, the winter season indirectly affecting the poultry industry.

-Andhra Pradesh, one of the largest producers of broilers eggs has decided to cut its egg production by 25% to reduce losses. According to estimates, 1.4 crore layers produce 90 lakh eggs per day in the Godavari zone of National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC). It is estimated that around 2 crore eggs are traded from Krishna, West and East Godavari districts into other consuming states for sale daily. The price of egg fell by 50 per cent in the last one week

-Share prices for companies in the poultry, egg and hospitality businesses have fallen; shares in Cipla (generic Tamiflu maker) and other drug companies are up. Stung by criticism that they declared a bird flu outbreak before all the evidence was in, health officials have released details of how cautious they were.