Peshawar's youth ventures into organic poultry farming to revive dying trend of eating desi chicken, eggs.

PESHAWAR -- A group of four educated youths from Peshawar ventured into a novel idea of establishing country's largest `Free Range' organic poultry farm with the objective of reviving the dying trend of eating real desi (indigenous breed) chicken and eggs.

Established over an area of around 64 kanals in Larama village on the outskirts of Peshawar, the W. Organic Farm has around 18500 roosters and hens fully grown in open and natural environment by eating organic food including grains.

'At the time of launching of organic poultry farm in June 2019, we inducted around 24000 desi chicks which we bought from Punjab and now we have around 18500 chickens as around 2000 rooters were sold in market and some died,' said Dilawar Khalid, partner among four owners of the farm.

The idea also supports Prime Minister's Imran Khan's "Backyard Poultry initiative" would help in taking this concept towards commercial lines on larger scale, Dilwar opined.

Dilawar, an MBA degree holder with additional qualification of MS in Finance, said his other three partners were his cousins and all were also highly qualified.

'Our farm is Pakistan's largest Free Range farm where around 20,0000 desi chicken are grown in natural environment and are fed with grains including wheat, maize, mustard, sun flower, animal dung and grass' Dilawar claims.

He said "there are much larger organic farms in the country but the chicken there are grown in controlled sheds While in their farm, the birds are also kept in totally natural environment".

"The chickens grown in our farm are totally free from hormones, antibiotics, steroids, chemical feed and animal derived feed", Dialwar continued.

To a question, he said, timely vaccination was made through veterinary to the chick for protecting them from seasonal diseases.

Dilawar said the trend of eating organic chicken and eggs has...

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