Consumption of poultry meat in India 2013-2023
India’s poultry stock
To meet the growing demand, the poultry population in the country has grown at a rapid pace. In 2003, the poultry and livestock population in India were almost the same but the poultry sector has grown a lot more comparatively ever since. In 2019, the population of poultry in India was over 800 million. This was a 16 percent increase over the last five years. In 2019, the Indian state of Tamil Nadu had the largest population of poultry in India accounting for more than 100 million.
Poultry trade in India
According to the source, India exported more than 7,000 metric tons of poultry meat to other countries. Even though the volume was high, it was less than the volume exported in 2016. For the same period, import of poultry meat was low but followed an increasing trend.