In 2014 there were 1006.7 million domesticated goats in the world. The highest population of goat is in Asia (60 per cent) followed by Africa (34 per cent). Goats are raised mainly by middle class and poor household. Agriculture contributes 34.7 per cent to Nepal’s GDP where livestock contributes nearly 26.8 per cent of agriculture GDP. Roughly 70 per cent of households keep some type of livestock, including cows, buffaloes, goat, pigs and chickens.
The livestock are kept mainly for farmers own consumptions and surplus products are sold in the local market. The main product sold in the market are egg, milk and meat. The main sources of meat are from buffalo, goat, sheep, pigs and poultry.
The programme will intervene in three major constraint areas: problems in production function, problems in input distribution and problems in forward market. Initial interventions will focus on problems in input distribution such as supply of better quality breed and improved feed and management practices, followed by interventions on disease management and forward market linkages.