Constraints faced by goat farmers of Nabarangpur district of Odisha

This study was carried out in two blocks of Nabarangpur district of Orissa. One hundred twenty respondents were selected randomly having minimum 10 numbers of goats with 5 years of experience in goat rearing. Different constraints namely financial, operational, extension support, socio-cultural and marketing were analyzed in detail. Extension support constraint was ranked 1st among all others. Majority of the farmers reported that proper incentives were not given by the government. Among the different operational constraints, unavailability of feed supplements was the major problem. Farmers did not have sufficient knowledge on benefits of goat farming. Our study suggested that goat farming is done by people of lower socio-economic status who face difficulty in transporting their goats to distance market place for marketing. Government may take necessary steps to improve the knowledge dissemination through specially designed extension activities.