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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Student’s Name: Jitendra kumar Nayak Organisation : PRADAN(Professional Assistance For Development Action) Objective: To promote goatary as a sustainable source of livelihood in Sarmathura region of Rajasthan. Scope of the Study: The study is limited to sarmathura region Methodology: A study was conducted through focus group discussion and survey through questionnaire. Sources of Data: The data were collected from the rearers , non rearers, brokers and traders of goat. The data were also collected from BAIF, line departments and other institutes like Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute. Findings: Some families of all the caste that are Meenas, Guzars, Jatavs and Thakurs who live in Sarmathura region rear goat. The goat breed that is found in this area is a mix breed of Beetal, Sirohi and Jamunapari. There is high kids mortality to the extent of 25% and on an average one kid survives per doe each year. The families hardly practice modern treatment for the goats and the veterinary department plays no active role in providing either preventive or curative treatment. The rearers sell their goats right from their villages in the month of October to February to traders on an average price of rupees eight hundred to twelve hundred per goat. Bucks of eight to fourteen months are generally sold out. Bucks under normal grazing attain a live weight of 25 to 30 kg. No weighing is done .The rates are fixed on approximate weight. Generally rupees ninety per kg carcass weight of goat is offered by the trader who sells the same at rupees hundred per kg carcass weight of goat in the cities like Agra and Delhi. After meeting all his expenses the trader earns rupees 4 to 5 per kg carcass weight of goat. Rearers of this region don’t sell their goat in the special market held ten days before Bakra Idd in both Delhi and Agra. The goats being un-castrated and colour of the goats in this region being predominantly black it is not that much preferred in Bakra Idd market. Castrated white colour goats fetch good price that is around rupees 200 per kg carcass weight where as black fetches rupees 150 per kg carcass weight. The area is a arid zone with annual rain fall of 400-600mm and has abundance of forest cover mainly of thorny bushes. The rearers graze their goats in this forest but during the months of May and June there is fodder and water scarcity. The goats are malnourished during these months. Individual families rear their respective herd. Waste lands and grazing lands are encroached by the people. Each family has at least one acre of encroached land. This goat rearing provides families with income ranging from rupees five thousand to thirty thousand. It contributes to 15 to 25 percentage of total household income. The other sources of income to families come from working as daily wage labour in stone quarry and from agriculture. PRADAN till today has inducted 2100 goats in 140 families through DPIP of Rajasthan. They are providing skilled based training to rearers to promote goatary as a sustainable source of livelihood. Recommendations: The team should provide veterinary services by forming Cooperative and the cooperative should also directly market the goats to Bakra Mandis at Agra and Delhi which are 120 ang 250 kilometers away from Sarmathura. They should induct jamunapari breed to capitalize on value potential associate with white colour during Bakra Idd. The rearers should be trained to partly stall feed and castrate at least half of the bucks to increase their weight to sixty kg in fourteen months to cater to Bakra Idd market at Delhi and Agra. The cooperative should be of minimum two hundred members with each having herd size of thirty does to break even. This herd size can provide each rearer an annual income of rupees thirty five thousand. Each rearer to take up plantation of Khejdi plant in one acre of waste land that would provide around 800 kg of dry forage annually to meet the fodder deficiency during May and June Month. ( iii)