President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has visited a poultry farm of “Sabirabad Gushchulug” Ltd in Nizami village in Sabirabad district.

Minister of Economy Shahin Mustafayev informed the head of state that over the past years the National Fund for Entrepreneurship Support under the Ministry allocated 133.4 million manats in preferential loans to 40 poultry farms. The farms were supplied with the state-of-the-art equipment made by the leading companies of developed countries.

The poultry farm in Sabirabad is an affiliate of “Hajigabul Gushchulug” Ltd. Founded in 1978, “Hajigabul Gushchulug” Ltd is the first privatized poultry farm in the country. The facility currently produces one million eggs per day. The farm exported 5.5 million eggs to Iraq and Afghanistan this year. It is scheduled to increase the volume of export to 10 million eggs by the end of the year. The farm plans to export 4.5 million eggs to the United Arab Emirates, Russia and Belarus.

The National Fund for Entrepreneurship Support under the Ministry of Economy allocated one million manats in preferential loans for the construction of the poultry farm in Sabirabad. The farm plans to produce 109 million eggs, 1,400 tons of poultry and 750,000 head of hens. The facility will create 150 permanent jobs.

AZERTAC