Poultry Project & Management

Yesterday me & my close friend Mr. Yogesh Chavan was on research tour for Maha Agri Network (MAN), near Pune. We were on study of Poultry Project & management. We were visited to Shindewadi Tal. Haweli Nr. Urali Kanchan. We were visited to Mohan Mahadik Poultry Farm in that village. A low land farmer with poultry farm. Where we meet with Mr. Chandrakant Mahadik the owner of the Poultry, he himself works on the project & for A to Z work he personally looks in to it.

We were there for two hours & had a word with him about poultry, poultry business, poultry management & poultry economy. It was a great learning process for me. He was looking in to this business from last 10 years & he is a platinum supplier for company in that area. He is doing Poultry farming under a contract farming concept. From last 10 years he is doing consistently good work in his business, and he is happy as well as satisfied with his work.

Mr. Chandrakant Mahadik owner of Poultry Farm

                        

He share clear view about poultry business, he said, “This is the one of suitable, simple & well earning business for low land farmers who are willing to work in sustainable agriculture.”  Reason behind chose this poultry farming as business ,for question he reply, he was inspire one of his friend who was already in this business and earning well. When we ask him the motive behind to start this business, he said proper income source in regular interval. He said today he is earning 40,000/- for every 45-50 days. It will help to sustain his family properly & help for agriculture farm.

He is doing contract farming with one of the leading chicken growing company in Pune area. He shares the initial investment cost for poultry business, then the agreement as well as document process with company (Chicken Supplying group). Also he spoke about management practices require for maintain the poultry industry with medicine & vaccination for birds. Also he talks about their feeding, water requirement, etc. The require infrastructure like shade then water-electricity facilities & required climatic conditions he discuss with us. 

Then he come on the most important aspect of any business i.e. Poultry Economy. In that he shares how company calculates the cost of bird.as well as he explains the expenditure behind every birds it include food, vaccine, transportation cost, cost of chickens. Today the companies decide the 50/-expected expenditure cost for each bird for 45 to 50 days. In this contract farming farmer got the money per Kg basis. Also he spoke about the insensitive structure for farmers. He said average 5 to 6 batches of birds per year he supplies to company. The single batch content near about 4000 to 8000 birds. So average supply of birds per year should 24,000 to 56000. The weight of 45 to 50 days birds is 2 Kg to 2.5 Kg.

At end of interview when we ask his Does you suggest anyone this business? , He replied & side,” I will”

Friends, I must say after meeting with such a successful person in sustainable agriculture project, the sustainable agriculture always play an important role for development of rural economy. And most of the low land farmers look towards such project as a good earning source.

Thank you.