Serious competition of Arian chicken strain with foreign breeds
According to Bazar, quoted from Kausar Economic Organization, the Arian breed of meat chicken, which is known as an Iranian breed, and the company in charge of maintaining and growing this breed (Dizbad) plays an important role in the country’s food security. It has been undergoing important changes for some time. .
In the meantime, Nazari Jahormi, the CEO of Dizbad Ajdad Chicken Company, enumerated the benefits of breeding and consuming Arian chickens, including the low number of deaths of this breed compared to other strains, and said: the reduction of the conversion factor in Arian chickens from 2.2 to 1.7, which was achieved with the efforts of experts Ajdad Dizbad Poultry Company has realized the most important achievement of ours, which due to the cheapness of one-day-old Arian chickens compared to Ras breed chickens and the higher health of this protein product, has entered a more serious stage in the competition of Iranian breeds with imported strains.
In the brief explanation of the methods that led to the reduction of the conversion factor in this breed, he stated: genetic selection and change of breeding methods in the GGP sector, ancestors and mother hens played an important role in this evolution.
Finally, Nazari Jahormi emphasized the centrality of research and scientific revisions in how to fulfill the tasks that Margh Ajdad Dizbad has towards the Arian breed and added: it is necessary to breed other broiler chicken farms in the course of knowledge-based developments located in Dizbad. to take effective steps in the implementation of resistance economy policies by reducing the need to import inputs and promoting the breeding and consumption of native breeds.
This post is written by MohammadH555