The survey states that in the fiscal year 2081/082, meat worth 60.96 billion 28 million rupees, eggs worth 14.82 billion 13 million rupees, chicks worth 10.22 billion 68 million rupees, and chicken manure worth 1.9 billion rupees were sold.
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Commercial poultry farming has been found in all districts except Manang and Mustang. The Commercial Poultry Farming Survey 2081/82 has shown that 22,938 farms/farmers across the country are found to be raising poultry.
According to the survey, commercial farming is being done for meat production. ‘Out of a total of 22,938 farms/farmers, 21,104 are producing meat, 1,706 are producing eggs and 118 are producing chicks,’ the survey states. Of the total farms, 79.5 percent are run by men and only 20.5 percent are run by women.
The survey states that meat worth Rs 60 billion 962 million was sold in the fiscal year 2081/82. The survey also states that Rs 14 billion 821 million, Rs 10 billion 2268 million and Rs 1 billion 900 million worth of chicken manure were sold in the same fiscal year.
Poultry farming has also been established as an industry, said Tirtharaj Chaulagain, director of the National Statistics Office. ‘It has been established as a good industry, there are some problems in the border area,’ he said, ‘I heard that farmers and farms in the border area have not been able to sell their products when they are easily imported from India at cheap prices.’
Chaulagain said that if the chickens do not find a market at 45 days, they eat more feed and sell less. ‘It would be easier if demand and production could be done at the same time,’ he said, ‘Although there is no shortage of workers in large farms, it has been found that workers are unstable in small farmers and farms.’ He said that there have been complaints that the government has not looked into the poultry farming business.
According to the survey, 66.1 percent of those running poultry farming businesses have poultry farming as their main business. According to the details received regarding the future plans of poultry business operators, 55.7 percent of entrepreneurs in Nepal said that they will continue to operate, 35 percent said that they will increase the capacity of the business, 3.2 percent said that they will reduce the production capacity and 6.2 percent said that they will close the business.
The main reasons for the low capacity of the poultry business or closing the business are lack of market (45 percent), lack of capital (20.5 percent), poor quality of chicks (3.3 percent), poor quality of feed (2 percent), problems in management (8.1 percent), lack of workers, unavailability of technical services (2.3 percent), and other reasons (16.8 percent).
According to the survey, the number of poultry farms has increased by 4.4 percent in the past 10 years. In 2072, there were 21,956 farmers, which increased to 22,928 in 2082. According to the survey, the number of poultry farms in the Far West has increased by 61.8 percent. But over a period of 10 years, the number of poultry farms has decreased by 14.3 percent in Lumbini and 3.6 percent in Karnali.
There has been a modest increase in Koshi, Madhesh, Bagmati and Gandaki provinces. Chaulagain said that the decrease is due to migration abroad and relocation while doing business. Bagmati still has the largest share of Nepal's total poultry farms at 34.4 percent. However, the survey mentions a modest decline over a period of 10 years.
