(IN): ICAR- Success Story - Commercial Goat Farming

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Success Story - Commercial Goat Farming

 

Goats are among the main meat-producing animals in India , whose meat

(chevon) is one of the choicest meats and has huge domestic demand. Due to

its good economic prospects, goat rearing under intensive and semi-intensive

system for commercial production has been gaining momentum for the past

couple of years. High demand for goat and its products with potential of

good economic returns have been deriving many progressive farmers,

businessmen, professionals, ex-servicemen and educated youths to take up the

goat enterprise on a commercial scale. The emerging favourable market

conditions and easy accessibility to improved goat technologies are also

catching the attention of entrepreneurs. A number of commercial goat farms

have been established in different regions of the country.

An unemployed agricultural graduate Mr. Deepak Patidar resident of

village-Sundrail, District-Dhar, Madhya Pradesh attended a Training

Programme on Commercial Goat Farming organized by CIRG, Makhdoom for 10 days

in the year 2000. Being inspired and motivated by the scientists of CIRG he

started a Goat Farm (Ekta Agronomic and Livestock) in his village in the

year 2001. The farm was established with 60 local goats reared under

stall-fed intensive system of management. Initially he faced a number of

problems like high cost of production, mortality and low price of the

produce. Under a project on Commercialization of Goat farming and Marketing

of Goats in India , the scientist from CIRG visited his farm and suggested

changes like breed (Sirohi), preparing pure breed animals as breeding stock

and effective marketing strategy and strengthening linkages with the other

farmers. Simultaneously he also received technical guidance from the

scientists of CIRG on health management of goats. Accordingly Mr. Patidar

introduced changes in his goat farm. Consequently his goat farming project

became viable and profitable. Mr. Deepak Patidar remained continuously in

touch with the scientists of CIRG through Scientist-Farmer Interactive Meets

and Seminars and has been using latest scientific information on goat

production for his benefit. The mortality in adults and kids, which was 10

and 40% respectively in the beginning, now has decreased to about 3% to 8 %

per annum. Presently he has 180 goats in his farm and prepares pure breed

animals mainly of Sirohi breed of goat for selling them as breeding stock to

the farmers and entrepreneurs. He also has some goats of Barbari, Jakhrana

and Janumapari breed. He sells his goats only on live body weight basis at

the rate of Rs. 120 to Rs. 200 per kg of live body weight. At present the

annual gross revenue of the goat farm is Rs. 4 to 5 lakhs and total annual

expenditure is Rs. 1.5 to 2 lakhs giving an annual net income of Rs. 2 to 3

lakhs.

 

Mr. Patidar has become a well recognized commercial goat farmer of Indore

Region and various related government departments, NGOs and farmers consider

him as a progressive goat farmer. He is being invited as a resource person

on goat husbandry in different training programmes organized by the Animal

Husbandry department and local NGOs. Till date about 1000 farmers and

trainees have visited his farm. Now he is developing and strengthening

linkages with the small/ traditional goat farmers of the area for taking up

breed improvement and organized marketing.

 

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