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Govt of India mandates compulsory Random Sample Poultry Performance for breeders
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Saturday, 10 February, 2007, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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MV Chandrashekar, Bangalore
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Random Sample Poultry Performance Test by breeders so that they know what they are selling and also the farmers know what they are purchasing.
In an e-mail interview, Dr K Ravi Kumar, superintendent, Random Sample Poultry Performance Testing Centre (RSPPTC) at Gurgaon in Haryana, stated that it will allow assessment of relative production performance of both layer and broiler stocks available in the country under uniform conditions, feed and management. The test is assigned for improving the status of poultry farming in the country.
The key objective of RSPPTC is to assess the genetic stocks of poultry birds developed by private and public sectors for commercial use. The tests serve the farmers with information on the production potentiality of various stocks available in the country and their relative economic advantages to enable them to choose stock and to poultry breeders to evaluate the merits of the stock developed by them assessing the comparative success of the poultry breeding technique followed by them
These facilities for RSPPTC are located at the Central Poultry Development Organisation at Hessarghatta in Bangalore, Bhubaneswar in Orissa, and also Mumbai The three locations serve as a single window to meet all technical requirements of the poultry farmers of the region. The service is also utilised for diversification of other avian species such as turkey, guinea fowl and quail.
The facility at Haryana is the first-of-its-kind functioning as a National Level Testing for Broiler and Layer, including low- input and low-output technology birds, says Dr Ravi Kumar.
The RSPPTC involves unbiased provision of testing facilities, which is achieved by allotment of secret code numbers by the committee of members drawn from private and public sector. All vital parameters like egg production, feed consumption, livability, in laying tests and body weight, feed consumption and conversion in broiler tests are included in the data along with economic viability. After the test, data is statistically analysed, result is decoded, printed and dispatched to the concerned state animal husbandry departments and agricultural universities.
The infrastructure at RSPPTC includes hatchery unit with modern equipment like automatic setter and hatcheries having capacity of 13,500 and 9,000, respectively. It also has brooding and rearing houses apart from test houses.
For the future Random Sample Poultry Performance Tests will also undertake assessment of brown eggers besides low-input and out put technology birds.
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