Poultry generated ~Rs999bn gross value added and employed 1.5m+ people.
Source
Pakistan Economic Survey — https://www.finance.gov.pk/survey/chapter_26/2_Agriculture.pdf. Verified in source set / retroactive normalization pending.
What it proves
Agricultural value chains support nutrition, jobs and diversification.
What it does not prove: Rs999bn is gross value added, not profit, and it is not net of feed, chick and energy costs that dominate poultry margins. The 1.5m jobs are large for one value chain but small against a labour force of 83.1m, and in an economy where over 85% of employment is informal the count says nothing about contracts, wages or security.
Memory hook: Rs999bn → poultry is a near-trillion-rupee chain employing over 1.5m
Rebuts the claim: "Livestock is backyard subsistence activity with no industrial scale or job-creating capacity" — one poultry chain alone generates near Rs1 trillion and 1.5m+ jobs.