1Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture Nandurbar
2Assistant Manager, Bank of Maharashtra
3Head, Department of Agricultural Economics, M.P.K.V., Rahuri
*Corresponding author's email: pawar1964@rediffmail.com
JEL Codes: Q12, Q13, R11.
The economics of goat rearing study was based on primary data collected from 120 sample flock ownersof flock size viz., small (< 10), medium (10–20) and large (>20) by survey method for the year 2012–13. The average fixed capital investment was 91998.64 per flock (58.44 percent) followed by the value of byre (38.30 percent), at the overall level. The total labour used for grazing of goat and maintenance of kids and byre estimated to be90.25and 9.75 percent, respectively. The cost of maintenance was5090.86per goat and annual returns 7297.58, at the overall.
Annual returns, break-even point, cost of maintenance, Goat rearing
