Raising and breeding of poultry such as chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls for eggs and meat.
Use this mapping when the business raises poultry. Slaughtering, feed manufacturing and wholesale are different activities.
A poultry farm that raises and breeds birds such as chickens, capons, ducks, geese, turkeys or guinea fowls for eggs and meat should examine NIC 014601 under NIC 2025. The code focuses on keeping and raising poultry as an animal-production activity. It is therefore different from operating a hatchery, manufacturing poultry feed, slaughtering birds or simply selling poultry products.
The enterprise may run broiler, layer or mixed poultry operations, manage sheds, feeding, flock health, breeding and routine production. The saleable output can be eggs, live birds or birds raised for meat, but the core economic activity is the raising and breeding of poultry. Farm scale does not determine the code: both smaller commercial farms and larger operations can share the same underlying activity.
NIC 2025 gives operation of poultry hatcheries its own sub-class, 014602. A farm that maintains birds and also runs a significant hatchery should review both activities. The distinction becomes especially important when chick production for sale is an independent revenue line rather than an incidental part of raising the farm's own flock.
Poultry slaughter and preparation are classified separately from farming, as is manufacture of poultry feed. Wholesale or retail of live birds, poultry meat or eggs is also a trade activity. A vertically integrated poultry company may therefore require several NIC codes because its farm, hatchery, feed mill, processing unit and sales operation perform different economic functions.
A clear description is: “Raising and breeding of poultry for egg and meat production.” This directly supports 014601 and avoids ambiguous phrases such as “poultry business”, which can refer to farming, hatchery, feed, meat processing or retail.
For a standard poultry farm whose main operation is raising birds for eggs and/or meat, 014601 is the principal NIC 2025 code to consider. Add or compare other activity codes when hatchery, processing, feed or trading operations are commercially significant.
The code expressly links poultry raising with production for eggs and meat, so a layer farm does not need to be treated as a different business simply because birds are not primarily sold for meat. Hatchery operation is different because its commercial output is chicks produced through incubation.
For a typical poultry farming, the primary NIC 2025 code to investigate is 014601 - Raising and breeding of poultry like chickens and capons, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls for eggs and meat.
Use this page as a shortlist and then verify the final code against the linked official NIC page. NIC describes the economic activity. It does not issue a licence, replace GST/HSN/SAC classification, or guarantee approval in Udyam, MCA or any regulated filing.
Choose the NIC code that matches the principal activity, usually the activity that generates the largest share of revenue or best describes the entity being registered.