Jrarat Poultry Complex is situated in Jrarat village, 32.2 km from  Yerevan.

Privatized in 1995, the company operated only in 1997 with the financial assistance of Eurasia Foundation, investments of the director Mr. Vahram Hakobyan and shareholders.

Jrarat Poultry started the business with importing American-French broilers from Turkey, mother stock broilers from Hungary (with the joint efforts of USDA Marketing Assistance Project and the World Bank), cross breed broilers from Holland through Arbor Acres Company.

Jrarat started the business with chicken meat and egg production. However, the saturation of egg market and lack of local chicken meat supply positioned Jrarat Poultry mainly as chicken meat producer. In fall 2000 Jrarat Poultry made the first move to sell chicken meat and was successful in this market by selling 100 tons of meat and completely stopped the egg production.

Since all efforts currently are focused on meat production the slaughtering facilities are modernized and renewed and new refrigerators are installed.

Total of 140 employees of the poultry annually produce 800-1000 tons of chicken meat. Newborn chickens are fed and kept for 42-50 days, slaughtered, packed in plastic packs, put into cardboard boxes in 10 pc and distributed to more than 300 stores of Armenia.

The main competitors in the local market are Lusakert, Arzni poultries, French and Brazilian chicken meat producers.

Jrarat Poultry OJSC is looking for export possibilities.