Suguna Poultry unveils commercial broiler sheds

Coimbatore: Suguna Poultry Farm has launched the first environment-controlled (EC) commercial broiler sheds in Madurai district.

The sheds, company sources said, were inaugurated at Erumalampatti village, Pannikundu, Thirumangalam in Madurai to grow its broiler chicken in the same way as it is done in developed countries.

Each shed has a capacity of 32,000 chickens, with the farm capacity at about two lakh chickens a batch. The annual capacity has been estimated at 12 lakh birds.

The entire system in the sheds is automated through advanced climate control system. Further, the feeding and watering systems are also automated, thus enabling the entire farm to be operated and controlled from a single computer-based system.

The company’s Managing Director, Mr B. Soundrarajan, said that it has always strived to maintain world class standards in all its operations. “We believe that technology should be tapped to make this possible. The EC shed is one such step in using technology for better productivity, hygiene and safety,” he said.

The company is planning to have more such sheds across the country.

The EC sheds would help improve feed conversion ratio, better quality bird meat, increased productivity and health of the chicken, reduced mortality, one extra batch (or cycle) per year per shed, and a system-controlled farm with ability to store and retrieve records up to five years, he said.

This poultry enterprise, with a turnover of Rs 2,030 crore in 2007-08, operates in 11 States.