Goat Farming Technical Manual

Acknowledgement There is highly potentiality for livestock development due to climate and bio-diversity in Nepal. In the country, there is availability of 64 liter milk, 11 kilogram meat and 32 eggs. There shall be increased in the production of 35% milk, 25% meat and 45% eggs in the present production, to meet the minimum annual consumption of livestock production as 91 liter milk, 14 kilo meat and 48 eggs in the developed country. In this way, there is important contribution of buffalo, goat, sheep, pig, poultry etc. for especially meat production in livestock production. Likewise, Gorkha district is very important from point of view of goat farming. There are more than 200 thousand goats, and establishment of nearly 250 commercial goat farms in the district at present. Especially, Jamunapari crossed, Khari crossed, Barbari crossed breeds goats are available here. In the recent time, it has also been started of importing Boer crossed goats in this district. District Livestock Development Office (DLSO) has already developed former Bakrang Village Development Committee (VDC) and Dhawa VDC as a resource center of Boer goat; whereas, rearing of Boer goat have also been started through Women’s Cooperative in former Barpak VDC (Sulikot Rural Municipality- RM, Ward-1 & 2) from the support of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Nepal from this year. In this way, “Goat Farming Technical Manual” which is suitable and applicable for the Boer goat farming as well as other goat breeds, is going to be published by JICA Nepal, and this manual shall be very useful to goat farmers in the future. This manual has covered reproduction, health, feeding, management, marketing and diversified aspects. In this way, it is hoped that this upcoming publishing manual shall be helpful for the development and extension of goat farming business in the district, as it is useful as reference to farmers and stakeholders of this business to set up own business. In addition to, it is very thankful to JICA Nepal for supporting to goat farming business by publishing “Goat Farming Technical Manual”. ………………… Dr. Jagat Bandhu Nepali Senior Livestock Development Officer

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