Economic Gains from Technological and Marketing Interventions in Goat Production in India: An Ex-ante Assessment

This paper has quantified the potential economic gains from technological and marketing interventions in goat production. A disaggregated analysis of net gain by individual intervention has been carried out so that more informative research and development programmes could be prioritized to enhance goat production in the country. The application of breeding intervention has been found to yield economic gains of 23713 million, which include 9977 million as cost of intervention. The health care intervention, which includes vaccination against important diseases and deworming may generate an additional income of 24064 million. An additional net gain of 14002 million has been estimated through nutritional intervention after deducting 29651 million as the cost of nutrition intervention. The net economic gain through marketing of kids at commercial age has been estimated to be 11842 million. This has been worked out after deducting cost of 13534 million for keeping animals for additional 4 months to attain the commercial age. The order of magnitude can be gauged that opportunity cost of technological interventions on health care, nutrition and marketing together are equivalent to about 1.24 per cent of total value of output (at current prices) from livestock sector in 2010–11 and 14.74 per cent of the value of output from goat sector for the year 2012.