Goat farmers perception of the constraints and factors helping in organizing a goat cooperative society

A study was conducted with 36 landless, 34 marginal and 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.

Major constraints hindering in the organization of a goat cooperative society were observed as wastage of time (74.29%), frictions among the goat keepers (44.76%), dependency on office bearers (40%), inadequate working facility (33.33%), and no benefit from goat cooperative society (27.62%). However, through cooperative society the farmers realized that they would get remunerative price for goat (52.38%), provision of easily available credit (44.75%), freedom from brokers (36.19%), direct benefit for the goat keepers (30.48%) and facilities for goat rearing (23.81%).