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THE MAJOR
CONSTRAINTS PREVAILING IN THE RURAL AREAS OF GOAT REARING ARE:
1. The whole management system including housing is
very poor for producing healthy animals.
2. Severe shortage of mature superior bucks in order
to serve does in estrum. Some bucks are used for many generations which
increases the co-efficient of inbreeding causing detrimental effects on
production and thriftiness. For shortage of breeding bucks there remains a good
number of heated animals without service for consecutive.
3. In many situations, milk production is very low,
not even sufficient for nursing their kids but no alternative approaches for
the supplementation are practiced by the farmers for the kids in the pre-weaning
stage.
4. Grazing facilities are very limited specially
during cropping season and during dry period. Fodder production for goat is
almost absent. Proper care, feeding and lower birth weight, reduces milk
production by the dam and hence leads to higher dead or mortality.
5. Disease of goats, particularly parasitic
infestation is another factor responsible for the higher mortality of both the
kids and the mature animals but little effort and facilities are available for
the prevention and control of diseases.
6. Approaches for the supplementary feeding in the
critical period and sensible stages of life are absent or neglected.
7. Lack of appropriate technology and infra structural
support for the promotion of production
in the rural areas.
8. Shortage of trained personnel and extension
services at the each of farmers door.
9. Lack of technical knowledge, how for the initiation
of the development policy best suited in
the rural conditions. Serious lack of integrated effort between the policy
maker and the scientists, make the whole developmental approaches unproductive
and meaningless in the present context.
10. No breeding policy has yet been formulated for the
conservation of the genetic resources and the improvement of most economically
important traits of goat
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