National Small-Holder Poultry Development Trust ( NSPDT)

What National Small-Holder Poultry Development Trust ( NSPDT) does

NSPDT (National Small-Holder Poultry Development Trust) is a Bhopal-based non-profit charitable trust that organises poor rural women into a cooperative network to run small-scale poultry enterprises. Building on PRADAN's 1993 pilot and constituted as a trust in 2009, NSPDT operates a vertically integrated Smallholder Poultry Model that supplies day-old chicks, feed, veterinary services, training, and assured buyback to participating producers, while aggregating output through 31 producer organisations and three state-level federations (MPWPCL in Madhya Pradesh, JWSPDFL in Jharkhand, Asomiya Mahila in Assam).

The trust's operational backbone consists of parent farms, hatcheries, a pellet feed plant described as the largest in central India, broiler and layer production units, and a poultry processing plant at Itarsi, with branded retail channelled through Sukhtawa Chicken and Swayam outlets. In FY 2022-23 the network generated Rs.625 crores in collective sales turnover with Rs.40 crores in profit and an Rs.82.75 crores equity base, supported by 15,000 women producers across Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, and Assam.

NSPDT's business model is donor-funded rather than commercial: it earns revenue primarily through grants and concessional loans (notably a €1.2M Rabobank Foundation loan in 2018), partnerships with DFAT (Australia), Tata Trusts, Aga Khan Foundation, and SIDBI, and pass-through margins on feed, chicks, and processing services supplied to the producer organisations. The trust's stated targets are to scale to 50 cooperatives, 20,000 producers, Rs.10 billion in turnover, and a presence in seven states — adding Bihar and Chhattisgarh to the existing footprint.

Name

National Small-Holder Poultry Development Trust ( NSPDT)

Legal name

National Smallholder Poultry Development Trust

Website

https://nspdt.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

NSPDT is an Indian non-profit trust organising poor rural women into 31 poultry producer collectives across five states, providing chicks, feed, veterinary services, training, and market linkages. Its network of 15,000 women producers generated Rs.625 crores in collective turnover in FY 2022-23.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Smallholder Poultry Development

NAICS

Poultry and Egg Production (1123), Broilers and Other Meat Type Chicken Production (11232), Poultry Hatcheries (11234), Poultry Processing (311615)

SIC

Poultry Slaughtering And Processing (2015), Agricultural Prod-Livestock & Animal Specialties (200)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYAFAEADAI

Integrated Poultry Operations (Vertically Integrated Farms)

Agriculture & Food Production/Animal Production & Aquaculture/Poultry & Egg Production

SECONDARYAFAEADAC

Breeder Flocks & Fertile Egg Production (Broiler/Layer Breeders)

Agriculture & Food Production/Animal Production & Aquaculture/Poultry & Egg Production

SECONDARYAFAEANAD

Poultry & Avian Veterinary Services

Agriculture & Food Production/Animal Production & Aquaculture/Animal Health & Veterinary Services

SECONDARYAFANACAE

Ground & Formed Poultry Products (Ground, Sausages, Formed Portions)

Agriculture & Food Production/Meat, Poultry & Seafood Processing/Poultry Processing (Broilers, Turkeys, Further Processing)

Keywords

• Smallholder poultry farming
• Women producer cooperatives
• Poultry feed manufacturing
• Backyard poultry production
• Poultry producer organizations

Headquarters

HQ city

Bhopal

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Poultry Sales Through Producer Organizations: NSPDT supports farmer collectives (cooperatives and federations) in poultry business. Producer organizations collectively earned Rs.625 crores in sales turnover and over Rs.40 crores profit in FY 2022-23. The model includes backward integration into parent farms and feed manufacturing, with front-end branded retail outlets selling chicken and eggs.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

NSPDT organizes poor rural women into poultry producer collectives (cooperatives and producer companies) and provides end-to-end support including capital grants for poultry sheds and birds, poultry feed supply, hatchery and chick supply, veterinary and doorstep services, training, and collective procurement and marketing of broilers and eggs. The trust also runs parent farms, pellet feed plants, hatcheries, and branded retail outlets (Sukhtawa and Swayam) to vertically integrate the smallholder poultry value chain for women producers across Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Assam and Maharashtra.

Product overview

NSPDT operates a unified smallholder poultry development ecosystem comprising a core smallholder poultry model that organizes rural women into producer collectives, supported by integrated infrastructure including broiler and layer farming operations, parent farms, hatcheries with combined monthly capacity exceeding 21 lac chicks, and pellet feed plants. The organization is expanding into branded retail outlets (Sukhtawa in MP, Swayam in Jharkhand) and processing plants to capture more value chain value. The model provides end-to-end support from input supply and training to veterinary services and procurement.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Smallholder Poultry Production Program A one-year broiler rearing program in which poor rural women rear broiler chickens in shade houses with attached open ranges, supplied with chicks, feed, veterinary support, training, and procurement services by NSPDT and its producer organizations.
• Broiler Farming Service Bundle Input-plus-training-plus-procurement bundle for rural women raising broiler chickens, including day-old chicks, feed, veterinary services, capital grants for sheds and birds, and guaranteed buyback by producer organizations.
• Layer Farming Service Bundle Layer bird rearing program providing pullets, feed, veterinary support, and egg collection through producer organizations, giving women producers continuous daily egg income alongside broiler cycles.
• Parent Farm Operations Parent stock farms producing broiler and layer breed chicks that feed NSPDT's hatcheries, used to ensure a reliable supply of day-old chicks to member women producers.
• Pellet Feed Manufacturing Plant A pellet feed manufacturing facility using an 80°C heating process to produce highly digestible poultry feed, supplying NSPDT's member women producers and producer organizations.
• Hatchery and Chick Supply Service Hatchery services producing day-old broiler and layer chicks — capacity of 12 lakh chicks per month in Madhya Pradesh and 9.5 lakh chicks per month in Jharkhand — supplying member women producers.
• Sukhtawa Branded Chicken Retail Outlet Retail outlet(s) under the Sukhtawa brand selling chicken sourced from NSPDT-affiliated women producer organizations directly to urban and semi-urban consumers.
• Swayam Branded Chicken Retail Outlet Retail outlet(s) under the Swayam brand selling chicken sourced from NSPDT-affiliated women producer organizations directly to consumers, complementing the Sukhtawa brand.

Quantifiable outcome

• 15,000 women poultry producers across 31 producer organisations generated Rs.625 crores in sales and Rs.40 crores profit in FY 2022-23
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• District Administration Keonjhar, OdishaminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 December 2021MoU signed between CDVO, Keonjhar and NSPDT in presence of PD DRDA cum CEO, DMF on 'Promotion of Household Level Poultry Producer & Producers Organization' targeting mining-affected villages in Keonjhar district, Odisha.
• PRADAN (Professional Assistance for Development Action)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1993NSPDT's introductory effort was taken by PRADAN at Kesla in MP in 1993. PRADAN is a Delhi-headquartered non-profit that launched the smallholder poultry model that NSPDT later scaled.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Godrej Agrovet Limited: Diversified Indian agribusiness with a poultry and animal feed business. Overlaps with NSPDT's feed manufacturing (Godrej is a major compound feed producer) and broiler operations, and is a relevant listed comparable for the integrated poultry/feed model.
• IB Group: Major Indian poultry integrator operating hatcheries, feed mills, broiler farming and processing across multiple states. A scaled private-sector competitor pursuing the same integrated poultry value chain that NSPDT is building with its producer-organization model.
• Venky's (VH Group / Venkateshwara Hatcheries): One of India's oldest and largest vertically integrated poultry companies spanning hatcheries, feed, processing and processed chicken. Competes with NSPDT across breeder farms, hatcheries, feed and branded chicken segments.
• Suguna Foods Private Limited: India's largest broiler producer and integrated poultry company with contract farming across many states. Directly comparable to NSPDT's aspiration to be a top-five broiler producer and competes in the same broiler value chain (genetics, feed, processing, retail).
• Srinivasa Farms Private Limited: South India-based integrated poultry company with breeder farms, hatcheries, feed mills and broiler operations. A comparable mid-sized Indian poultry integrator that has pursued contract farming with smallholders, similar in concept to NSPDT's producer-company model.

Direct peers

• BAIF Development Research Foundation: Large Indian development NGO running livestock and rural livelihood programs (including poultry, dairy, goat) organized around producer cooperatives. Comparable in its rural-women-focused livestock collectivization approach and geographic concentration in tribal/rural belts of central and western India.
• Heifer International: Global non-profit focused on ending hunger and poverty through livestock and smallholder agriculture, with deep programs in India. Operates a comparable model of organizing rural smallholders (especially women) into livestock value chains and is directly comparable in mission, structure and target beneficiaries.
• PRADAN (Professional Assistance for Development Action): Delhi-headquartered non-profit that originated the smallholder poultry model at Kesla in 1993 and continues as a core strategic partner of NSPDT. Operates integrated rural livelihood programs with livestock and poultry components targeting poor women, making it the closest operational peer.

Others

• SELCO Foundation: Indian social enterprise foundation focused on sustainable rural livelihoods. While focused on energy/housing rather than poultry, it shares NSPDT's structure as a charitable trust working with poor rural communities, using grant capital and institutional partnerships to build rural ecosystems - useful as a structural/funders' peer.
• Cargill India: Global agribusiness with major animal nutrition and feed operations in India, including poultry feed. Relevant as a potential input supplier/partner or competitor to NSPDT's pellet feed plant given the company's role in shaping feed pricing and supply across the country.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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