Fast Track Poultry Production Planned in Uttar Pradesh… 28-02-2019, by , 1 Comments 4 Views Poultry Production to speed up in Uttar Pradesh INDIA – Uttar Pradesh, the largest state of the Indian Republic, has a population of 207 million people. The state has been receiving all sorts of poultry inputs such as table eggs from South India and broiler chicken and chicks from the neighboring states of Madhya Pradesh in the south, West Bengal in the east and Haryana in the North. The state has decided to go buoyant in poultry production under the active encouragement of the chief minister and active administration in the department of Animal husbandry since last three years. The state has initiated schemes to attract poultry production entrepreneurs from other states, which are leading in poultry production and the others interested with in the state. The government has offered 10% interest subvention to the new entrepreneurs who start layer units of 30,000 birds and broiler breeding units of 10,000 birds. They also offered faster clearances on land acquisition and power supplies to the new units. The state government has advised the banks to lend more money to the new poultry units. The result is that the daily egg production has already gone up by 1.00 million eggs per day. And production of broiler chicks with in the state will commence by the second half of the year 2014. The state government has implemented the rural back yard poultry scheme sponsored by the central government with lot of diligence and 3 million Dual purpose, Multicolored Low input “Rainbow Rooster” chicks were distributed in 77 districts at 40,000 chicks per district. These three million chicks must have added at least 1.5 million Kgs of chicken and another 1.5 million layer birds on the way to produce eggs in the rural house hold augmenting the nutritional status of the low income groups in the state. Inspired by the progress, neighboring states like Bihar have also hastened their efforts to utilize the centrally sponsored schemes in poultry production. The production figures for chicken and eggs in India for the year 2015 should look much better than anticipated.