REPORT BY: DR SOHAIL HABIB SYED, AREA SALES & SERVICE MANAGER LOHMANN TIERZUCHT GMBH

Commercial or modern poultry in Pakistan is one of the largest agrobased segment of Pakistan that was established in 1962, having an investment of more than 732 billion rupees (7.32 Billion UsD). The poultry industry of Pakistan is making a tremendous contribution in bridging the gap between the supply and demand of animal protein. About 25,000 poultry farms have been established in Pakistan. Moreover, the annual growth rate of poultry production is about 10 to 12 % whilst 40 % of the total meat production is being procured from poultry products. Furthermore, other poultry products that are annually in Pakistan are followed by table eggs: 9410 million; chicken meat: 953.600 metric tons




The International Poultry expo (IPEX) was held from 25th to 27th september, 2014 at The expo Center, Lahore. On this occasion, different local and international poultry companies, poultry feed manufacturers, poultry farm consultants and poultry equipment manufacturing companies exhibited their products at this expo. The Federal Minister for Food security and Research, sikandar Hayyat Bosan, inaugurated the International Poultry expo. He elucidated his remarks on the topic of “Avian Health”. “He said that Pakistan was the 11th largest producer of broiler chickens in the world as its poultry sector was growing at a pace of 10 % annually, adding that this sector had 6.1 % share in agriculture and 10.8 % in the livestock sector. „Brazil is the largest exporter of halal chicken to saudi Arabia, and Pakistan has all the potential to make inroads to this market”, he said, adding that the country’s poultry industry could also exploit the need of Gulf countries for halal chicken”. After the address of the Federal Minister, the event was started.


Different booths were arranged in two halls and the exhibitors included Altininbek Makina (Turkey), Beijing Yuet International exhibition Co. Ltd., Cherry Pharma Itn’l, Ghazi Brothers, Orient Animal Health, Fine Fabricator, Lohmann Animal Health, sb Pharma, Hilton Pharma, Biocure Pharma, soypak, A & K Pharma, Kps Company, Descon Chemicals Limited, Vetmune Pharma, euro Feed Technology, Pepco Pakistan, Big Bird Group (Pvt) Ltd, K & N’s Poultry, Um enterprises, Agro Tech, Zagro singapore Pte, Kausar Feeds, Jadeed GP Frams Pvt Ltd.

The most interesting part of the IPeX were talks by inspiring great personalities which were held on 25th september, 2014. The Chief Organizer, Chaudhry shaukat Hussain, started the inaugural session of the conference and enlightened the participants on aims and objectives of IPeX. Other delegates, e.g. Mr. Raza Mehmood Khursand, Chairman of PPA (Northern Zone), Dr. Muhammad As lam and Mr. Khalil, sattar also addressed the importance of poultry farming.

The 1st technical session was co-chaired by Dr. Muhammad sadiq and Dr. Naeem Tariq. In this session, different speakers like Dr. Mustafa Kamal, Dr Hanif Nazir and Dr. Muhammad Riaz elaborated on modern broiler management, spray & other vaccination techniques, respectively. The 2nd technical session was co-chaired by Mr. Khalil sattar and Dr. Khurram shafi Qazi. In this session, Dr. Khalid Naeem Khawaja presented a recent update of Newcastle disease. eng. Tariq Nazir closed this session with an informative talk on farm ventilation.

The event finally ended on 27th september with lots of informative ideas regarding poultry farming. By these innovative ideas we can flourish Pakistan’s poultry industry.

Dr. Sohail Habib Syed