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Int. J. Agric.Sc & Vet.Med. 2014

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Research Paper

CONSTRAINTS IN GOAT HUSBANDRY PRACTICES BY GOAT OWNERS IN NAVSARI DISTRICT OF GUJARAT G P Sabapara1*, L M Sorthiya2 and V B Kharadi3

*Corresponding Author: G P Sabapara,  [email protected]

The present study was undertaken to investigate the constraints faced by goat owners in Navsari district of Gujarat. Data collected from 250 goat owners revealed that marketing was the main constraint (85.30%) followed by feeding, healthcare, breeding and housing as 84.80, 77.04, 76.00 and 74.64% faced by goat owners, respectively. The main constraints regarding marketing were lace of marketing infrastructure (89.60%) and middle man not providing remunerative price to male kids (86.40%). Regarding feeding, main constraints were high prices of concentrate (89.60%) and lack of knowledge about importance of mineral mixture (87.20%). With respect to health care practices the major constraints were lack of knowledge about deworming (83.20%) and high mortality rate in kids (81.20%). Regarding breeding, indiscriminate breeding (86.40%) and non availability of improved breeding buck in market (80.80%). With respect to housing management was high construction cost (82.80%) and high interest rate (82.40%). Considering above fact, it is suggested that appropriate strategy might be formulated for the development of goat rearing and also for the goat owners in the study areas. Keywords: Constraints, Goat, Navsari district, Owners, Practices

INTRODUCTION

supplementary feeding of locally available crop residues and agro-industrial byproducts. Goat farming as low cost enterprises mainly because of the unique characteristic of goat like small size, clean habits, thrive on tree leaves, grasses, etc.

Goat provides sustenance and supplements the income of farmer’s especially landless, marginal and small categories. Goats are generally maintained on grazing or browsing and 1

Polytechnic in Animal Husbandry, Vanbandhu College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, Navsari 396450, Gujarat, India.

2

Livestock Research Station, Vanbandhu College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, Navsari-396450, Gujarat, India.

3

Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Vanbandhu College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, Navsari 396450, Gujarat, India.

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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Census data revealed that India accounts 140.5 millions goats whereas in Gujarat state and Navsari district had 45.82 lacs and 86.5 thousand goats, respectively. In recent years, it has been observed that the farmers are rearing the goats on traditional pattern and not adopting the improved goat husbandry practices because of many constraints. Thus they are getting only the remunerative prices for their animals and products. Most of the goat owners of Navsari districts belong to scheduled tribe and other backward class. Hence, the present study was undertaken with specific objective to study the constraints faced by goat owners in goat rearing.

Housing Constraints Housing constraints faced by goat keepers are depicted in Table 1. It indicated that among different constraints related to housing, 82.80% goat farmers were faced high construction cost (rank 1st) as major constraints in adoption of improve housing for goats followed by high interest rate and lack of adequate space realized by 82.40% (rank 2nd) and 76.80% (rank 3rd) goats owners, respectively. Lack of own capital (74.40%) and lack of credit facility (56.80%) were found 4th and 5th rank constraints perceived by the goat owners in the study areas. These findings are supported to those reported earlier by Gujar and Pathodiya (2008), who stated lack of credit facility as major constraint in their study areas.

METERIALS AND METHODS The present study was conducted in Navsari district of South Gujarat during March-December, 2013 following ex-post facto research design. A total 250 goat owners from 25 villages spread over five talukas viz., Navsari, Jalalpore, Gandevi, Chikhali and Vansada were selected using multistage random sampling technique. The data were collected through personal interview with the help of well-structured interview schedule by personal contact method. The data collected were tabulated and analyzed using standard statistical tools (Snedecor and Cocharan, 1989). The major constraints taken into consideration were related to housing, feeding, breeding, health care and marketing management.

Feeding constraints Feeding constraints faced by goat keepers are depicted in Table 2. It indicated that among different constraints related to feeding, high prices of concentrate (89.60%) appeared at first rank followed by lack of knowledge about importance of mineral mixture (87.20%, rank 2nd), shortage of grazing land (84.80%, rank 3 rd), lack of knowledge about balanced feeding (83.20%, rank 4th), and non availability of green fodder round the year (79.20%, rank 5 th) were constraints in adoption of improved feeding management practices. These findings are accordance to those

Table 1: Housing Constraints Faced by Goat Owners (N = 250) S. No.

Constraints

Frequency

Percent

Rank

1.

Lack of own capital

186

74.40

IV

2.

Lack of credit facility

142

56.80

V

3.

High interest rate

206

82.40

II

4.

Lack of adequate space

192

76.80

III

5.

High construction cost

207

82.80

I




breeding buck in market (80.80%, rank 2nd), lack of knowledge about breeding practices (74.40%, rank 3rd), lack of knowledge regarding selection of breeding buck (73.60%, rank 4th) and repeat breeding in female (64.80%, rank 5 th) were constraints in adoption of improved breeding management practices. These findings are accordance to those reported earlier by Gujar and Pathodiya (2008), who stated lack of improved breeding buck (81.66%) as a major constraint. Wani et al. (2009) reported that 90.45% of the respondents had the constraint of indiscriminate breeding and 71.04% of the respondents had the constraint of inadequate availability of quality breeding bucks and Tanwar (2011) stated that inadequate availability of breeding bucks (73.75%), lack of knowledge about breeding practices (71.67%) and indiscriminate breeding (61.67%) was constraints for goat keepers.

reported earlier by Mohan et al. (2009) and Thorat et al. (2012), who found that 60.31% and 70.67% respondents had lack of grazing land as a major constraint, respectively. Gopala et al. (2010) reported that 90% of the respondents had the constraint of lack of fodder during summer and Tanwar (2011) stated that lack of knowledge about balanced feeding (94.17%), high cost of feeds and fodder (82.08%), non availability of green fodder (74.58%) and lack of knowledge about importance of mineral mixture (72.50%) was constraints for goat keepers in their study areas. It was suggested that goat keepers must be educated about balanced goat feeding, pasture management, new plants must be planted and grasses seed must be shown in village community land to promote goat rearing in study areas.

Breeding Constraints

Health Care Constraints

Among breeding constraints the results are presented in Table 3 showed that indiscriminate breeding (86.40%, rank 1st) emerged as major constraint followed by non availability of improved

The results on constraints in health care practices are presented in Table 4. The findings suggested that lack of knowledge about deworming

Table 2: Feeding Constraints Faced by Goat Owners (N = 250) S. No.

Constraints

Frequency

Percent

Rank

1.

High prices of concentrate

224

89.60

I

2.

Non availability of green fodder round the year

198

79.20

V

3.

Shortage of grazing land

212

84.80

III

4.

Lack of knowledge about balanced feeding

208

83.20

IV

5.

Lack of knowledge about importance of mineral mixture

218

87.20

II

Table 3: Breeding Constraints Faced by Goat Owners (N = 250) S. No.

Constraints

Frequency

Percent

Rank

1.

Non availability of improved breeding buck in market

202

80.80

II

2.

Indiscriminate breeding

216

86.40

I

3.

Lack of knowledge about breeding practices

186

74.40

III

4.

Repeat breeding in female

162

64.80

V

5.

Lack of knowledge regarding selection of breeding buck

184

73.60

IV




(83.20%) and ranked first followed by high mortality rate in kids (81.20%, rank 2nd), lack of knowledge about prevalent common diseases (78.00%, rank 3rd), parasitic problems in goat (73.20%, rank 4th) and costly veterinary treatment (69.60%, rank 5th) were constraints in adoption of improved health management practices. These findings are supported to those reported earlier by Gopala et al. (2010), who stated disease problems (88.57%) as major constraints. Thombre et al. (2010) reported that 76.38% of the respondents had the constraint of costly veterinary services and Tanwar (2011) stated that high cost of treatment (75.00%), ignorance about importance of deworming (74.58%) and lack of knowledge about prevalent common diseases (68.75%) were major constraints for goat keepers. The present finding was higher than earlier reports of Gopala et al. (2010) and Thorat et al. (2012), who found that 37.14% and 43.33% respondents had kid mortality constraints in their study areas.

(89.60%) is very serious problem as faced by goat keepers and assigned first rank in study areas. Middle man not providing remunerative price to male kids (86.40%, rank 2nd), low market price for goat (83.60%, rank 3rd) and unorganized goat owners (81.60%, rank 4th) were major constraints faced by goat owners in the study areas. These findings are supported to those reported earlier by Tanwar (2011), who stated lack of marketing infrastructure (80.83%), middle man not providing remunerative price to male kids (79.17%) and unorganized goat owners (75.42%) as a major constraint for goat keepers whereas, Wani et al. (2009) who reported that lack of marketing infrastructure (52.84%) in their study areas. It was suggested that goat owners should be organized as cooperative society for sale of male and female goats or kids for remunerative price in the study areas.

Overall Constraints Overall constraints data are presented in Table 6 revealed that the goat owners expressed marketing constraints (0.85 Mean Score) as most serious constraints in growth of goat

Marketing Constraints Marketing constraints are summarized in Table 5 and it showed that lack of marketing infrastructure

Table 4: Health Care Constraints Faced by Goat Owners (N = 250) S. No.

Constraints

Frequency

Percent

Rank

1.

Costly Veterinary treatment

174

69.60

V

2.

High mortality rate in kids

203

81.20

II

3.

Parasitic problems in goat

183

73.20

IV

4.

Lack of knowledge about prevalent common diseases

195

78.00

III

5.

Lack of knowledge about deworming

208

83.20

I

Table 5: Marketing Constraints Faced by Goat Owners (N = 250) S. No.

Constraints

Frequency

Percent

Rank

1.

Low market price for goat

209

83.60

III

2.

Lack of marketing infrastructure

224

89.60

I

3.

Unorganized goat owners

204

81.60

IV

4.

Middle man not providing remunerative price to male kids

216

86.40

II




Table 6: Overall Constraints Faced by Goat Owners (N = 250) S. No.

Constraints in Various Area

Mean Score

Mean Percent Score

Rank

1.

Housing management

0.74

74.64

V

2.

Feeding management

0.84

84.80

II

3.

Breeding management

0.76

76.00

IV

4.

Healthcare management

0.77

77.04

III

5.

Marketing management

0.85

85.30

I

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husbandry and assigned first rank in the pr oblem hierarchy, f ollowed by f eeding constraints, healthcare constraints, breeding const raints and housing constraint s, respectively. The mean score of these constraints were 0.84, 0.77, 0.76 and 0.74, respectively and assigned 2 nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th rank by the goat owners, respectively in the st udy ar eas. T he pr esent f inding was accordance with the finding of Tanwar (2011).

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CONCLUSION It can be concluded that high construction cost for housing, high interest rate, high cost of concentrates feed, lack of importance of mineral mixture, indiscriminate breeding, non availability of superior breeding buck, lack of knowledge about deworming, high mortality rate in kids, lack of marketing infrastructure and middle man not provided remunerative price of male kids were major constraints as perceived by goat owners in adoption of improved goat husbandry practices. Therefore, goat owners should be trained through various training programmes conducted by SAU, KVK’s, NGO’s and other agencies so as meet the constraints in housing, feeding, breeding, healthcare and marketing.

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