A STUDY ON CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN POULTRY FARMING WITH REFERENCE TO KARNATAKA STATE

Poultry farming is one of the rapid growing agriculture sector in India. It maintain protein and nutrition requirement. Karnataka has conducive atmosphere for poultry industry. Objectives of this paper is  to analysis challenges in poultry sector in Karnataka, To study opportunities associated with poultry sector in Karnataka, To study the consumption level in broiler and egg poultry sector in Karnataka. The explorative research method is used to study the challenges and opportunities in poultry sector in Karnataka, the secondary data is used in this paper to analyse the result and to interpret the objective of this paper. Following challenges are found from literature review, lower productivity, lack of transportation facilities and storage, lack of quality standards in managing farming of low quality feed, low processing facilities. The poultry sector in Karnataka has huge opportunities, such are increasing of per capita meat and egg consumption creates huge job opportunities to youngsters in India. Policies which are help in supply of corn and soya beans at comparatively low price. Finally the poultry sector has huge opportunities. The per capita consumption available is 40grms and recommended by experts is 181grms.