Today millions of Indians start their day with an egg, forty years ago it was hardly so. Thanks to the pioneering efforts of one man, Dr,  B. V. Rao founder of Venkateshwara Hatcheries. Dr. Rao was also affectionately called ” The Father of Indian Poultry  Industry” . He was the driving force behind transforming poultry from a mere backyard activity into an organized world class industry. In a way the progress & growth of the Indian poultry industry is synonymous with the growth of the V.H. Group.

Late Smt. UttaraDevi Rao was the motivation & inspiration behind her husband. Smt Uttara Devi Rao started Venkateshwara Hatcheries in the  form of a small farm in Hyderabad in 1970. In 1971 Dr. B.V. Rao converted this farm into a hatchery. He strived ceaselessly for over four decades acquiring the latest technologies from all over the world and assimilating them into the Indian industry, giving an impetus to indigenous research & development, modernizing the Farm Management system, encouraging value addition, imparting professional training to the farmers, unifying & improving them to shape their own denstiny.

In the process he crafted Indian poultry industry as a vibrant, fully integrated technology with productivity level surpassing the best in the world & thereby giving India a place of pride on the poultry map of the world.

Over the years, other ventures were added & the group evolved as the most integrated poultry operation in Asia, encompassing within its fold, everything required for successful poultry farming. Today the VH Group is a 1 billion USD conglomerate, the largest fully integrated poultry group in AsiaAs the first company to embark on a process of developing the industry on scientific lines, Venkateshwara Hatcheries Private Limited occupies a special place in the Indian poultry scene.

It pioneered the concept of parent franchisee operations, popularized cage farming, and introduced for the first time in India, the concept of inactivated vaccines and combination vaccines, and more importantly, use of SPF eggs in vaccine production.

Venkateshwara Hatcheries Private Limited has given the nation an industry with a potential to generate millions of income generating opportunities, enhance rural development and enrich the diet of its people. Such have been its pioneering efforts, that today Venkateshwara Hatcheries Private Limited is synonymous to Indian Poultry Venkateshwara Hatcheries Private Limited has based its poultry operations in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and the southern states of India. Included in its portfolio are new technology driven businesses like the egg powder plant in Hyderabad (a 100% export oriented unit) and wind energy farms on the outskirts of Coimbatore.