EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Student’s Name: Jitendra kumar Nayak

Organisation : PRADAN(Professional Assistance For Development Action)
Objective: To promote goatary as a sustainable source of livelihood in Sarmathura region of
Rajasthan.
Scope of the Study: The study is limited to sarmathura region
Methodology: A study was conducted through focus group discussion and survey through
questionnaire.
Sources of Data: The data were collected from the rearers , non rearers, brokers and traders
of goat. The data were also collected from BAIF, line departments and other institutes like
Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute.
Findings: Some families of all the caste that are Meenas, Guzars, Jatavs and Thakurs who
live in Sarmathura region rear goat. The goat breed that is found in this area is a mix breed of
Beetal, Sirohi and Jamunapari. There is high kids mortality to the extent of 25% and on an
average one kid survives per doe each year. The families hardly practice modern treatment
for the goats and the veterinary department plays no active role in providing either preventive
or curative treatment. The rearers sell their goats right from their villages in the month of
October to February to traders on an average price of rupees eight hundred to twelve hundred
per goat. Bucks of eight to fourteen months are generally sold out. Bucks under normal
grazing attain a live weight of 25 to 30 kg. No weighing is done .The rates are fixed on
approximate weight. Generally rupees ninety per kg carcass weight of goat is offered by the
trader who sells the same at rupees hundred per kg carcass weight of goat in the cities like
Agra and Delhi. After meeting all his expenses the trader earns rupees 4 to 5 per kg carcass
weight of goat. Rearers of this region don’t sell their goat in the special market held ten days
before Bakra Idd in both Delhi and Agra. The goats being un-castrated and colour of the
goats in this region being predominantly black it is not that much preferred in Bakra Idd
market. Castrated white colour goats fetch good price that is around rupees 200 per kg
carcass weight where as black fetches rupees 150 per kg carcass weight.
The area is a arid zone with annual rain fall of 400-600mm and has abundance of forest cover
mainly of thorny bushes. The rearers graze their goats in this forest but during the months of
May and June there is fodder and water scarcity. The goats are malnourished during these
months. Individual families rear their respective herd. Waste lands and grazing lands are
encroached by the people. Each family has at least one acre of encroached land. This goat
rearing provides families with income ranging from rupees five thousand to thirty thousand.
It contributes to 15 to 25 percentage of total household income. The other sources of income
to families come from working as daily wage labour in stone quarry and from agriculture.
PRADAN till today has inducted 2100 goats in 140 families through DPIP of Rajasthan.
They are providing skilled based training to rearers to promote goatary as a sustainable
source of livelihood.
Recommendations: The team should provide veterinary services by forming Cooperative
and the cooperative should also directly market the goats to Bakra Mandis at Agra and Delhi
which are 120 ang 250 kilometers away from Sarmathura. They should induct jamunapari
breed to capitalize on value potential associate with white colour during Bakra Idd. The
rearers should be trained to partly stall feed and castrate at least half of the bucks to increase
their weight to sixty kg in fourteen months to cater to Bakra Idd market at Delhi and Agra.
The cooperative should be of minimum two hundred members with each having herd size of
thirty does to break even. This herd size can provide each rearer an annual income of rupees
thirty five thousand. Each rearer to take up plantation of Khejdi plant in one acre of waste
land that would provide around 800 kg of dry forage annually to meet the fodder deficiency
during May and June Month. ( iii)