Ruchi Sharma1* and Sandeep Saran2
1Assistant Professor, Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education, IIVER, Haryana, India
2Principal Scientist and Head, Poultry Economics and Agricultural Research,
ICAR- Central Avian Research Institute, Uttar Pradesh, India
*Corresponding Author: Ruchi Sharma, Assistant Professor, Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education, IIVER, Haryana, India.
Received: July 26, 2023; Published: August 18, 2023
The Indian poultry industry has been growing at an increasing rate as a result of an increase in demand for non-vegetarian diets. This, in turn, has attracted new entrepreneurs to enter the poultry business market. The study was carried out to analyse the socio-economic profile of poultry farmers in relation to layer farming in order to study the impact of their social attributes in shaping the poultry business of the region. The total sample size of the study consisted of 90-layer farms. The socioeconomic parameters considered were the age of the poultry farmer, experience in the poultry business, education qualification, family size, poultry farming as a primary occupation, and land holdings of the poultry farmer. The results depicted that the region had majority of poultry farmers belonging to the old age group of more than 50 years and having experience of more than 25 years. Most of the farmers in the region had small farms with less than 80,000 birds and poultry farming was the primary occupation of more than 98 percent of the farmers. All the farmers of the region were educated and most of them were graduates.
Keywords: Layer farming, Poultry farming, Socio-economic profile, Subtropical India
Citation: Ruchi Sharma and Sandeep Saran. “Socio-Economic Profile of Poultry Farmers in Subtropical India".Acta Scientific Veterinary Sciences 5.9 (2023): 56-59.
Copyright: © 2023 Ruchi Sharma and Sandeep Saran. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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