Kerala Chicken Poultry Processing Plant has been launched to boost Kudumbashree Kerala Chicken Project activities in the state. Shri. V. Sasi, MLA, Chirayinkeezhu Constituency inaugurated the plant which is located at Kadinamkulam of Thiruvananthapuram district. The plant is situated on four and a half acres in Channankara.
Kudumbashree is implementing the project in collaboration with the Department of Animal Welfare and KEPCO with the objectives of finding a solution to the high price of chicken meat, providing clean chicken meat to the consumers, ensuring regular income for the chicken farmers who are members of Kudumbashree, producing and distributing 50 percent of the broiler chicken market in the state itself. The activities are coordinated by the Kudumbashree Broiler Farmers Producer Company Limited.
The plant has the capacity to process 500 chickens per hour. After conducting ante-mortem inspection of the one and a half month old broiler chickens delivered here, only fully healthy chickens will be used for processing. Processing and further operations are carried out scientifically with the help of various machines in semi-automated poultry processing line with the help of overhead rail system. There is also an extensive cold storage facility for keeping poultry meat chilled.
The quality assured products will be marketed under the brand name 'Kudumbashree Kerala Chicken' through supermarkets in the first phase. Various value added products of poultry will be produced and a 'Meat On Wheels' mobile sales outlet will be started to make them available to the customers.
At present, chicken is supplied to all the 111 outlets operating in the state from farmers working under the Kerala Chicken Scheme. When the processing plant starts functioning, all the chickens required here will be procured from the same farmers.
Shri. Hari Prasad, President, Pothencode Block Panchayath presided over the function. Dr. Sajeev Kumar. A, CEO, Kerala Chicken Broiler Farmers Producer Company Limited & Programme Officer, Kudumbashree explained the project. Shri. N. Sasidharan Nair, Private Secretary to the Minister of Local Self-Government and Excise Department, Ms. Ajitha Ani, President, Kadinamkulam Grama Panchayath, Ms. Unaisa Ansari, Member Kaniyapuram Division District Panchayath, Ms. Sreekala. S, Chief Environmental Engineer, Dr. Beena Beevi, District Animal Husbandry Officer and Ms. Ruby Naushad, CDS Chairperson extended their greetings. Dr. B. Najeeb, District Mission Coordinator, Kudumbashree Thiruvananthapuram District Mission welcomed the gathering and Ms. Sachithra Babu, Director, KBFPCL, delivered the vote of thanks.
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