- Business
- Bairaha Farms PLC is a Sri Lanka-based vertically integrated poultry and meat processing company engaged in the breeding, farming, processing, and distribution of poultry products. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, the company operates across the livestock, animal health, and consumer food sectors, serving retail consumers, foodservice operators, quick-service restaurant chains, and institutional catering clients across Sri Lanka and selected regional export markets.
The company organizes its business operations across integrated poultry segments and provides a comprehensive portfolio of products and services, comprising: commercial broiler day-old chicks and parent stock day-old chicks for poultry farming; fresh, chilled, and frozen whole broiler chicken along with specialized cut portions; value-added and further processed poultry products marketed under the Bairaha brand, including standard chicken sausages, bockwurst, cheese and onion sausages, chicken burgers, chicken meatballs, cheese-filled chicken nuggets, chicken kochchi bites, mini kievs, chicken munch, and marinated meat cuts; ready-to-cook and ready-to-eat convenience food products; contract growing and outgrower farming management programs; and animal husbandry inputs, including veterinary supplies and livestock disinfectants. The company maintains an extensive operational footprint comprising grandparent and parent breeding farms, hatcheries, broiler grow-out farms, processing facilities, and cold-chain distribution networks, supported by strategic joint ventures including Fortune GP Farms (Lanka) Ltd. for grandparent breeding and Fortune Agro Industries (Pvt) Ltd. for commercial animal feed milling.
In recent developments, Bairaha Farms PLC has accelerated its strategic focus on value-added product manufacturing, supply chain infrastructure modernization, and geographic export expansion. The group established Global Reach Foods (Pvt) Ltd. as a dedicated, wholly owned export-oriented subsidiary and completed an approximate LKR 310 million acquisition of factory premises, land, and machinery in Pannala, Kurunegala District, designed to expand capacity for niche processed meat products targeted at international export markets. To enhance supply chain efficiency and product preservation standards, the company also commissioned a new 500-tonne cold storage facility, expanding its cold-chain storage and logistics capacity. In addition, the group has implemented enterprise-wide operational efficiency programs, integrating advanced automation and digitalization across its hatchery, farming, and processing operations to improve biosecurity, yield optimization, and long-term cost resilience.