Skylark Foods Limited is a subsidiary of Skylark Group, an Indian company that specialises in chicken and meat processing, and poultry products for poultry usage. It holds the same position in North India as Venky's holds in South India.
History Founded in 1985 in village Anta, Distt. Jind, Haryana as Skylark Poultry Farms by the Dhull and Deswal family, it mainly produced day-old layer and broiler chicks for the poultry markets of North India. Skylark started its first operation with broiler breeding & hatchery with a capacity of 1000 broiler breeders.
Milestones Year Milestone1980Started broiler commercial farming (with 700 chicks)1985Broiler Breeding & Hatchery (with 1000 PS)2000Start contract broiler farming (with 20000 birds)2000Poultry equipment2002Layer breeding & Hatchery2003Poultry feed plant2006Poultry processing plant2008Broiler farming (Automatic)2010Grand Parent Operation2012Feed production plant at Pilani, Rajasthan2013Agri operation in West Africa with PAGL2014Started Feed production plant in Purnia (Bihar) & Nepal2015Layer Ops in South India201850% share Garinno Global Skylark Sunline Myanmar2019Soy Solvex Plant Ujjain2020Fish Feed, Cattle Feed, Nugget Raja, ANTA
Products Skylark mainly produce poultry products, including both food products and poultry farming equipment and feed
Poultry sales
Skylark markets fresh chilled and frozen chicken in institutions and retail segments in different pack sizes under brand name "Nutrich" in North India. Their products range includes whole chicken, chicken boneless (breast & thigh), drumsticks, full legs, wings, lollipops etc. Their clients include retail stores, commercial kitchens, and franchisees outlets. The processing plant of Skylark is at Food Park, HSIIDC Industrial Estate, RAI, Haryana which is near Delhi.
Hatching and breeding The company has separate hatcheries for Grand Parent, Parent Stock and commercials at 5 different locations in Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat. Skylark have as well established a distribution network for the sale of DOC's / hatching eggs in Haryana Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan states.
Skylark is the largest producer of broilers in North India. Skylark has a capacity of about 3 million broilers per month which is a huge number as compared to other broiler companies in India.
Skylark have a poultry feed mill in Jind district and has a production capacity of 800 tonnes per day. It was established in 2003. This mill produce feed for G.P., Parent Stock, Layer Stock and commercial broiler farming having their respective starters and finishers range.
Skylark provides technical assistance to farmers via a disease diagnostic laboratory at Jind, Haryana.
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