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Broiler Goat Farming: A Profitable Enterprise for Empowering Farm Women

Goat farming in India is a female dominated enterprise. Goats are usually maintained in extensive and semi intensive system and the productivity of goats is very low as the animals mainly subsist on crop residues, tree leaves and natural grasses with little or no concentrate mixture. Goats in stall feeding show faster growth rate by feeding high protein concentrate with quality green fodder. Broiler goat production system is being popular and considered as an alternate feeding approach in which animals were provided energy, protein and critical nutrients in the specified quantity in concentrate mixture. The feed escalation in this intensive feeding system can be reduced by providing quality fodder with proper ratio and standardised method of feeding to achieve optimum growth performance following proper housing, health and management. This system ensures early attainable market age and better economic return to the farm women engaged in goat rearing in entrepreneurship mode.