An official of PL&DD, while seeking anonymity, told Pakistan Today that there were no ongoing poultry projects, therefore, they were selling each unit at a standard rate of Rs1,200. These chickens are sent to farmhouses and they are distributed when they reach their poultry unit age whereas there are two types of farmhouses. One kind produces 1,200-1,500 birds per week and the second, a large one, produces 2,500 to 3,000 birds in a week,” they said. “The project was actually initiated by the previous Shehbaz Sharif-led government in 2014 for flood affectees in rural Punjab. In September 2016, PL&DD once again started the project called “Developing Rural Poultry Models to Support Rural Economy” and its main objective was to improve commercial as well as rural poultry production activities in the province, they said.

Source: Pakistan Today December 12, 2018 16:41 UTC