Assessment of the Traditional Goat Production Systems in Rural Areas of District Sant Kabir Nagar

Abstract

Description of goat populations in rural areas of district Sant Kabir Nagar is necessary for providing information on common goat types and their characteristics and may be essential for the pointing and accomplishment of any intervention strategies willing to preserve and manage goat genetical resources at the rural districts based level. District Sant Kabir Nagar is a district in eastern uttar pradesh. The district is known by its present name on account of Sant Kabir, the well known Sant (poet) and philosopher, lived at Magahar in the district. Sant Kabir Nagar was created on september 5, 1997 from district Basti including 131 villages from tehsil Basti and 161 villages from Bansi tehsil of district Siddharth Nagar. The district lies among Gorakhpur in the east, Basti in the west, Siddharth Nagar in the north and Ambedkar Nagar in the south. According to the district statistical department of district covered an area of 1659.15 sq. km. According to census of 2011 the district has a population 1706706 person of which 865195 are males and 841511 are females of which 120054 persons, resided in urban areas and 1586652 in rural areas. 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.