Who are the top 10 egg & Chicken producers of Asia?

Who are the top 10 egg & Chicken producers of Asia?

Here is a look at the top 10 egg companies in Asia:

1. CP Group

Thailand-based CP Group, the major shareholder of Charoen Pokphand Foods (CP Foods), an extensive network of agri-food holdings operating primarily in Asia and Europe. It’s layer flock consists of 22 million hens.

2. Ise Inc.

Japan’s Ise Inc. is one of the largest table egg producers in the world, with interests in Japan, China and the U.S. Ise has two further processing plants and two liquid egg facilities in Japan. The company has 20 million hens.

3. Kazi Farms Group

Kazi Farms Group is the largest poultry player in Bangladesh. The company built three commercial layer farms for a total capacity of 10 million eggs per day. It’s layer flock consists of 12.7 million birds

4. Beijing DQY Agriculture Technology

Beijing DQY Agriculture Technology breeds poultry and both produces and processes eggs. The vertically integrated enterprise claims to operate the biggest layer farm in Asia, and to be the only egg producer in China with grandparents stock, parent stock and commercial layers. It has 7 million hens in its flock.

5. Sakku Group

Sakku Group is the largest table egg producer in India, with an annual throughput of 1.2 billion eggs. Between it and its subsidiary Venkatrama Poultries, it has 6 million hens.

6. Shendan Healthy Food

China’s Shendan Healthy Food specializes in hen, duck and goose egg production and egg processing. Its eggs are exported to Japan, Korea, the United States, Australia and other countries. The company has six production and processing bases for egg products. The company has 5 million hens in its flock.

7. Leong Hup Holdings Bhd.

Malaysia’s Leong Hup Holdings Bhd., owned by investment group Emerging Glory. It has 3 million hens.

8. Lay Hong Bhd.

Also from Malaysia, Lay Hong Bhd. Has six layer farms and one liquid egg processing plant. It’s flock includes 2.8 million hens.

9. Sadiq Brothers

Pakistan’s Sadiq Brothers has a flock of 2.1 million hens. It also has a broiler operation that produces 1,500 metric tons of poultry meat monthly.

10. Kasemchai Farm Group

Kasemchai Farm Group, based in Thailand, Kasemchai Farm Group, with five subsidiaries, is the main distributor for all products branded as KCF. It has 2 million layers.

Asia’s leading broiler producers

Three of Asia’s top five broiler producers are headquartered in China, and primarily serve their home market, with Wen’s Food Group standing head and shoulders above the competition. Asia’s second largest broiler producer, CP Group, despite selling into numerous markets, slaughters less than three-quarters of the birds produced by its larger rival.

1. Wen’s Food Group

Wen’s Food Group is Asia’ largest poultry producer, and the 4^th-largest producer of poultry meat worldwide. Slaughtering 925 million birds per annum, the Yunfu City, China-based company produces chickens, ducks and geese and is also a leading producer of pigs. It has consolidated 326 companies, encompassing 49,000 farms across China and sells in more than 20 provinces and municipalities. In April this year, the company opened a breeding facility in the southeastern province of Guangdong, which is expected to produce 10.5 million broilers annually.  Not only is the company a global leader in broiler production but ranks fifth in the world for feed production.

2. CP Group

Slaughtering 685 million birds annually, CP Group, of Bangkok, Thailand, is Asia’s second-largest poultry producer, and owner of an extensive network of agri-food holdings operating primarily in Asia and Europe. The fifth-largest broiler producer in the world’s key products include chicken, table eggs, ducks and egg products. In 2020, its Vietnamese operations opened a US$250 million poultry complex comprising a feed mill, hatchery, farms, and a slaughter and processing plant. The latter will have the capacity to process 100 million broilers by 2023. Earlier this year, the company launched a range of plant-based meat alternatives, stating that it wanted to be a top three player worldwide in the segment within five years. CP is the world’s largest producer of animal feed.

3. Wellhope Agri-Tech

Wellhope Agri-Tech, a subsidiary of Wellhope Shenyang Huakang Xinxin Food Co., slaughters 625 million broilers per annum. This ranks it third in Asia for broiler production and 8^th worldwide. Based in Shenyang City, China, the company reports that the number of broilers slaughtered over the first half of this year was 23% higher than that ovefr the same period last. Wellhope is also active in swine and feed production, with feed operations in 11 countries beyond its home market making it the 52-largest feed producer in the world.

4. Suguna Foods

Slaughtering 517 million birds annually, Coimbatore, India-based Suguna Foods is an integrated company marketing live broilers, valued added eggs and frozen chicken products. The 14^th-largest broiler producer in the world, the company works with more than 42,000 contract farmers across 18 states. Last year, it announced investments of US$67.2 million in a new hatchery, processing plant, poultry sheds, and a premix plant and feed mills in India, along with hatcheries in Bangladesh and Kenya, markets it entered in 2011 and 2017, respectively. In addition to its chicken, egg and feed operations, the company also operates a retail chain. Its feed operations make it the world’s 56^th-largest feed producer.

4. Fujian Sunner Development Company

Said to be the largest producer of white feather birds in China, Guangze-based Fujian Sunner Development company slaughters 510 million birds per annum. Ranked 15^th globally, the company is active primarily in its home market, selling frozen chicken to the fast food, food processing and wholesale markets. It has become one of the top three suppliers to KFC and McDonalds in China. In March this year, Yum Brands announced that it had purchased a 5% equity stake in the company.

Wen’s Food Group is by far and away the largest broiler producer in Asia. Its throughput of 925 million birds makes it a top 5 player globally..

CP Group is not only Asia’s largest egg producer, but the region’s second largest chicken producer and the biggest producer of animal feed in the world. 

Compiled  & Shared by- This paper is a compilation of groupwork provided by the Team, LITD (Livestock Institute of Training & Development)

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