Thrust Area

• Nutrition and feeding, genetics and breeding, product processing, reproduction, characterization and management of various poultry species
• Native Poultry and waterfowl evaluation, characterization and conservation

Projects

• All India Coordinated Research Project on Poultry
  • Genetic improvement of commercial layer chicken\
  • Produced Athulya/ILM 90 commercial White Leghorn cross
• Revolving Fund Poultry Project
  • An Autonomous, profitable project on revolving fund model.
  • Compounding, milling, mixing and supply of 12 varieties of poultry and animal feeds
  • Production and supply of day-old chicks and partly grown birds to farmers

Research News and Events

• Organized 4th World Waterfowl Conference in 2009 November in association with World Poultry Science Association (WPSA) attended by national and international delegates. PI- Dr. P. Anitha
• AICRP on Poultry at Mannuthy was adjudged as the best performed centre among AICRPs by ICAR in this five-year plan. PI- Dr. K. Narayanankutty