GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL SCHEME ON POULTRY

Scheme for Establishing “Poultry Estates” and Mother Units for Rural Backyard Poultry

Nodal Agency: Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries (DADF), Ministry of Agriculture GOl

Objectives:

•       Encourage small & marginal farmers, educated & unemployed youth, women, socially & economically backward section of the society to take up activities of poultry sector in a compact area by providing required infrastructure and related facilities.

•       Achieve economies of scale by adopting cluster approach, better resource sharing etc.

•       Putting technical-backstopping, training and operation procedures in place in theseunits to prevent risk of loss from breach of bio-security and disease.

•       Restore consumer confidence in products from these estates and encourage brand recognition and therefore ensure a steady market. Farmers may exploit opportunity provided by these estates to become exporters of poultry products.

•       Eventually, these model poultry estates should have a snowball effect and propel private sector to pay attention to bio-security issues, hygienic, pollution-free production and most important of all, welfare of primary farmer etc.

Eligibility:

•       Small and marginal farmers, educated and unemployed youth, women, socially and economically backward section of the society.

Assistance to State Poultry Farms: 100% centrally funded for North Eastern States and for other States, it is shared between Centre and State on 80:20 basis. No financing by the bank is involved as the entire assistance will be met by the Central / State Govt.

Rural Backyard Poultry Development: Mother units with a unit size of 1500 chicks would be established a with the unit cost of Rs 1.36 lakhs; for which 

Subsidy :  Rs. 0.20 lakh (as borrower’s margin) & Rs. 0.36 lakh as Interest free loan

Poultry Estates: The scheme envisages establishment of a maximum of 100 broiler or layer units of 2000 birds each, per poultry estate, which will be eligible for Interest Free Loan @ 50% of total financial outlay (TFO) of the project.

Feed manufacturing units that are set up in poultry estates will also be eligible for Interest free loan @ 50% of the outlay.