Yawar Ali, I took up the matter of growing soybeans within the country. Recently, seeing and understanding the progressive attitude of the current Chairman Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) Mr. Besides, there was need to do extensive research as to the cropping area keeping in mind that the cropping period did not override another crop. As such, soybean was not marketable at that time.
Jameel Nashtar, efforts were made to grow soybeans within the country but the solvent extractors were not interested in extracting oil from soya as the yield was only 17 percent. KS: During the lifetime of late Chairman Agriculture Development Bank Mr. Imported ingredients cost about 50-55 percent of the poultry feed.īRR: Since soybean meal is one of the biggest chunks of the costs, why can't we make it here in Pakistan? Then among the imported feedstuffs are soybean meal, which is more than 75 percent of the product, and micro ingredients which include vitamins, amino acids, and prophylactics. With the price of wheat going up, the price of other commodities such as maize and rice also go up. The government has control on wheat support prices. In volume terms, nearly all the feed ingredients are agro-based, on which we have no control.
Khalil Sattar: Feed is about 70-75 percent of the cost, the rest is the cost of day-old chicks, labour, utilities like electricity, fuel for heating, rental of poultry sheds or depreciation, vaccines/medications, etc. In this interview, Sattar, who is also the Chairman of Pakistan Poultry Association, talks more about the issues faced by Pakistan's poultry industry, and what the government needs to do to help achieve the industry's potential, both locally and for the purpose of boosting exports.īR Research: How does the cost structure of the industry look like? Last year, at the IFFA International Quality Competition in Germany, K&N's won five gold medals and a silver and bronze medal in the category of sausages and cold cuts. Formed in 1964 by Sattar who was then a college student, K&N's success has been featured in a Harvard Business School case study. To help answer that question, we met Khalil Sattar - the founder and CEO of K&N's, the family-owned fully vertically integrated poultry enterprise. Earlier this month, BR Research wrote a column on Pakistan's meat exports, wondering why the country isn't tapping the huge potential of poultry exports.