Extension Education and Socio-Economics Section, Central Institute For Research On Goats, Makhdoom, P.O. Farah-28 1122, Distt. Mathura, (U.P.)
A study was conducted with 36 landless, 34 marginal, 20 small and 15 medium-large (total 105) randomly selected goat farmers of 8 purposively selected villages under goat production technology transfer area of the Institute in Farah block of Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh.
It was observed that higher adoption of goat production technology is dependent upon the time of organization of health camps for treatment of sick goats, vaccination against contagious diseases and availability of Veterinary doctor in time, supply of saplings of fodder trees, training in goat rearing, health and other aspects, provision of remunerative price for goats, easy availability of credit and arrangement of breeding bucks from CIRG at lower price. These are essential for higher adoption of goat production technology and also increasing the production in terms of meat, milk. etc.
Adoption of Technology, Goats, Production of goats
