AgribusinessThe broiler descends from the wild red junglefowl of South and Southeast Asia and was shaped by millennia of domestication and 20th-century selective breeding; its fast growth comes from genetics, feed and housing, not hormones.
LivestockThe Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute said in June 2020 it had developed a chicken that looks like the local bird and, by its account, falls ill less often and needs fewer drugs; Aftab Hatchery signed an agreement to be its sole marketer.
Unstable prices are pushing Joypurhat's 10,000 chicken farms, 40 hatcheries and 11 feed mills between profit and loss, putting over a lakh livelihoods at risk.
In Shandong, China, quality feed and company support have made a layer farm reliably profitable, a model Shykh Seraj suggests for Bangladesh's feed companies.
