Technical Services
  • SHL has 9 Senior Veterinarians, located one in each district, to provide services to the farmers like giving computerized project reports, helping farmers in locating and designing poultry sheds, computerized feed formulations, disease diagnosis, feed analysis, advise on prevention and treatment of diseases, liaison between egg traders and poultry farmers etc.
  • SHL takes help from PDRC for advanced diagnostic facilities like viral isolation and differential diagnosis, etc.
  • SHL has one central laboratory at Vijayawada headed by a very senior veterinarian and assisted by a microbiologist and chemist. It has 4 satellite labs for disease diagnosis in different districts.
  • SHL also has one central feed analytical laboratory and 4 separate satellite feed laboratories in its area of operations.
  • SHL is equipped with advanced facilities like ELISA equipment for microbiological work and NIR equipment for quick feed analysis.
  • SHL is proud to be closely associated with farmer welfare organizations like NECC and BEPA.
  • Our area is divided into 4 NECC zones for egg rate declaration.
  • There are about 43 big egg traders in these 4 zones.
  • The Executive Chairman Sri C. Jagapati Rao and Joint Managing Director Dr. K. Somi Reddy spends a couple of hours every day in coordinating egg marketing and price declaration work among NECC officials, farmers and traders in all our Zones.
  • Approximately 30% of the eggs produced in SHL area are consumed locally and balance 70% eggs are sent to other markets within India like Bihar, Bengal and North Eastern States.
  • Average egg price realized by the farmers for the year 2010 is Rs. 2.287.