Goat Farming - Impacting Livelihoods

Goat Farming – Impacting Livelihoods Goat farmers could earn 250-300% higher incomes from goat rearing only by adopting scientific norms of goat management and potentially higher by improving herd size and engaging in goat rearing as an enterprise by rural households.Continued innovation is needed for better technology acceptance by all stakeholders.

India occupies first position in terms of goat population and milk production. Goat farming plays a significant role in providing supplementary income and livelihood to millions of resource poor farmers and landless laborers of rural India. Small ruminant rearing ensures self-employment and acts as a cushion in distress situations like drought and famine. Goat Diary Livestock & Farm Management App is built to optimize the performance of farm by increasing the productivity & improving every aspect of goat & sheep farming for commercial milk & meat production and helping farmers in the agritech sector across the world to use technology easily. Goat Diary Livestock & Farm Management Android App allows user to maintain accounts on the farm by updating the expenses occurred and income gained & which will help users understand the profitability of their farm. Goat Diary Livestock & Farm Management Android App is very simple to use and is ideal for farm managers/owners looking to move up from manual records to computerization.Decision-making tools with speedy, easy data entry, flexible & powerful reporting are available for mobile platforms.

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.