Poultry production in Pakistan has experienced great growth and development in recent years, with a major modernization of farms, which has led Pakistan to become the eighth largest poultry producer in the world.

The poultry sector is one of the productive sectors with the highest annual growth in Pakistan, around 10-12% per year, and in which the Pakistani government is investing more economic resources, so it is foreseeable that this growth will be maintained in the coming years. This sector currently provides work for more than 1.5 million people in Pakistan.

Commercial poultry production began in Pakistan in 1962, and 1.94 million tons of chicken are currently produced, in the more than 15,000 farms established throughout the country. Such farms vary in size, from 5,000 to 500,000 broilers.

In the case of egg production, there are about 45 million layers in the country, which produce 2 million tons of eggs annually. As for feed production, 6.4 million tons of feed are produced annually.

One of the biggest challenges of Pakistani poultry farming is the reduction of the use of antibiotic treatments as growth promoters, as well as their use preventively. It is estimated that 1.9 billion Pakistani rupees, equivalent to 9 million US dollars, are invested annually in treatments on poultry farms.

A large part of these treatments could be avoided by the inclusion of pronutrients in the feed. Pronutrients are active molecules of botanical origin that improve the physiological functioning of organs, and therefore the productive performance of birds.

Specifically, the use of intestinal conditioning pronutrients, which have as a target cell the enterocytes of the intestinal epithelium, allow to increase the rate of renewal of these, as well as the tight junctions between them, ensuring the integrity of the intestinal epithelium. At the productive level, this is translated into an improvement in the feed digestibility, greater nutrient absorption and finally, greater final weight and lower feed conversion rate.

In the case of laying hens, the use of intestinal conditioning pronutrients allows to increase the laying percentage, the eggshell quality, as well as the internal quality of the egg.

Several trials have shown that the use of intestinal conditioner pronutrients can improve intestinal health and thus significantly reduce the use of antibiotics in poultry production.

It should be noted that, as they are molecules of botanical origin, pronutrients do not generate bacterial resistance, do not leave residues in animals and do not require a withdrawal period.

Intestinal conditioning pronutrients are marketed under the name Alquernat Nebsui de Biovet S.A.