Indian agency Avee Broilers has launched plans to assemble a US$43 million poultry genetics facility in Uzbekistan, which is ready to tremendously change commerce flows all through the central Asian space.
Coupled with the poultry commerce development plans pursued by the Uzbek authorities, the power will help rework Uzbekistan from a web broiler meat importer proper right into a poultry exporter, Gazeta. uz, an space data outlet reported, citing a provide throughout the Uzbek Poultry Enterprise Affiliation.
The mission will help central Asia – a space comprising Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan – mitigate its dependence on imported poultry, which is now primarily delivered from the European Union.
Avee Broilers held preliminary talks with the native authorities to establish poultry manufacturing property throughout the Zomin, Bakhmal, and Gallaorol districts of the Jizzakh space and throughout the Bulungur district of the Samarkand space.
A part of the funding worth is due to be lined by native corporations, though concrete particulars are however to be revealed.
Meeting demand
Beneath the talked about settlement, Avee Broilers will arrange capacities to offer 4 million heads of mum or dad flock in Uzbekistan per yr.
Central Asia’s 120 million inhabitants consumes spherical 1.2 million tonnes of poultry meat yearly. The poultry commerce requires spherical 5.5 million heads of mum or dad flock per yr, which suggests that the mission will meet the native demand for genetics by larger than 80%.
Throughout the first stage, in 2024-2025, Avee Broilers plan to establish purebred flock breeding in Uzbekistan. The launch of a hatchery with industrial manufacturing of day-old chicks is preliminary scheduled for 2025.
Poultry farmers will revenue
The mission will revenue central Asia’s poultry commerce, serving to farmers to avoid wasting money on logistics costs, amongst totally different points.
“Proper this second, the logistics worth for mum or dad flock provide from European nations is US$2 per head. When this mission is carried out in Uzbekistan, the payment will in all probability be 50 cents per head, which could save central Asia as a lot as US$5 million [per year],” Avee Broilers acknowledged throughout the assertion, quoted by Gazeta.Uz.
Progress of the native poultry commerce
Uzbek authorities have been making efforts to develop the poultry commerce these days. In June 2024, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree requiring the federal authorities to facilitate the establishment of a poultry cluster throughout the nation for US$100 million.
Amongst totally different points, it was unveiled in the meanwhile that the nation was planning to cooperate with an unknown US agency to show into self-sufficient in poultry genetics.
