Goat Rearing: Source of Income for Rural Farmers
Geeta Mohan*
Dept. of Agriculture, Jagan Nath University, Jaipur, Rajasthan (303 901), India
O.P. Sharma
Dept. of Agriculture, Jagan Nath University, Jaipur, Rajasthan (303 901), India
Manjeet Kaur
Dept. of Agriculture, Jagan Nath University, Jaipur, Rajasthan (303 901), India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Empowering women, Goat husbandry, Livelihood, Nutritional security
Abstract
Goat has been economically important to people living in arid, semiarid, hilly rural and tribal areas, because of its tolerance to harsh weather conditions, ability to feed on inferior quality crop residues, high prolificacy, short gestation period and high rate of growth. The production potentials of goat have not been optimally tapped due to unavailability of services required for breeding, veterinary care, mobilization of feed resources and market connectivity for milk and meat. Providing technical services to goat keepers to improve yield and quality of the produce, instead of mere increase in population should be the focus of goat development programme. Strengthening of infrastructure for supply of good quality inputs, processing of various goat products and marketing can enhance the income of goat keepers by several folds. Goat husbandry being an important tool for empowering women and poor for ensuring nutritional security and important livelihood support program in the rural development.
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