Indian poultry to gain from food sector modernization

摘要

II ndia's broiler meat produc-I tion reached 4.3 million tons I in 2018, the most recent year for which data is available, while egg production stood at 82 billion eggs, up significantly from the few million eggs produced only two decades ago.With growth rates of 8% in broiler production, and 4 to 6% in egg production, India's poultry industry is performing far more successfully than the agriculture sector as a whole, which has been expanding by approximately 3% per annum, and is already taking advantage of the broader changes occurring across the country's food market.