Economics of Goat Rearing in Ahmednagar District

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.