Major issues of poultry production in Nepal

a) High Cost of Production​:

• Cost of Producing chicken meat is 28% lower in China and 18% less in India compared to Nepal.​
• Hence, Nepalese product can’t compete with products from neighboring countries.​

b) Immune-Suppression and vaccination Failure:​

• In Year 2013/2014, there was outbreak of IBD in Nepal due to haphazard use of antibiotics in Poultry (Dr. Rupesh Shrestha, Regional Veterinary Laboratory, Pokhara).​

c) Lack of Biosecurity:​

• Results to infectious bursal disease (IBD), New Castle disease (NCD) and Avian influenza (AI).​
• It results in more than 80% mortality of poultry.​

d) Lack of well-equipped disease diagnostic lab:

• There is only one poultry disease diagnosis lab named “National Avian Laboratory, Bharatpur” and is also not fully functional.​
• Department of Food technology and internal control is also functional only during period of festivals.​

e) Overuse of Antibiotics and Antibiotics resistance.:

• About 50% antibiotics are prescribed inappropriately (DDA Nepal, 2012).​
• About 71% of Veterinary drugs sale are sold without prescription of qualified registered veterinarian (Khatiwada, 2013)​
• This resulted in multidrug resistance in microbes to antibiotics.​

f) No prioritization on Avian Research​:

• No clear-cut Policy for livestock development by government.​
• Absolute lack of research on breeding and reproduction.​

g) Lack of Slaughter House and Processing Plant:

h) New Disease Challenge​:

• Ineffective control measures from government have resulted to major disease outbreaks in Nepal.​

i) Unstable Market for Egg and Meat:

j) Trans-Border Poultry Trade​:

• Many Farmers are involved in illegal trade of poultry.​

k) Lack of Commercialization.​

l) Technical Problems​:

• Because of insufficient equipment and improper training to farmers.​

m) Institutional, biological and socio-economic problem.:

n) Price Fluctuation in poultry meat and so on.​