Volatile situation in West Asia unlikely to hit India’s poultry products exports: Ricky Thaper, Joint Secretary, Poultry Federation of India

The key market for the poultry products exports are Oman, United Arab Emirates, Maldives, Indonesia and Vietnam

The volatile situation in West Asia is likely to have some impact on the exports of poultry products to middle east countries. India exported poultry products valued $ 168.77 million (10.34 lakh tonne in terms of volume) in 2024-25 financial year. The key market for the poultry products exports are Oman, United Arab Emirates, Maldives, Indonesia and Vietnam. In the current fiscal, there has been significant uptake in demand from the United Arab Emirates and Oman. “However the poultry products exports still account for a very small portion of the size of the poultry industry,” stated Ricky Thaper, Joint Secretary, Poultry Federation of India.

“Indian Poultry is valued at $30 billion and employs 6 million people directly or indirectly. Due to steady rise in consumption of eggs and broiler meat, the sector witnessed an annual growth of 7 per cent to 8 per cent. Thus conflict in the middle east is unlikely to impact over all growth of the poultry in the country,” said Thaper.

Currently the broiler (meat purpose) placement is 5.5 billion annually and the layer (for eggs) annual placement is 350 millions besides there is around 40 million backyard poultry in India. India is the 2nd largest producer of eggs in the world with annual production of 142.6 billion eggs.