Goat farming a profitable venture for landless farmers

Our Correspondent

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Tarn Taran, February 24

Dr Inderjeet Singh, Vice-Chancellor, GADVASU, Ludhiana, stressed on scientific goat farming for the uplift of poor peasantry in the state. The VC was addressing the trainees enrolled under a week-long skill oriented vocational training course at Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Booh in Tarn Taran on Wednesday.

He also took stock of various extension activities such as development of demo units and strengthening of laboratory amenities at its campus. The VC said as the goat was considered as poor man’s cow and walking refrigerator and there were many scopes of better income from this area. Dr Balwinder Kumar, Associate Director, KVK, Tarn Taran, discussed a diverse factors contributing towards good goat rearing practices which grazes in open farm in order to satiate the digestive system which in turn results into good quality milk production. He also motivated the resource poor farmers regarding popularisation of backyard poultry farming to ensure regular daily income.

The Vice-Chancellor along with officials visited a high-tech dairy farm at Sohal village and disseminated awareness regarding escalating silage production as well as organic fodder production by utilising animal excreta produced at the dairy farm.