National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Goat being one of the earliest domesticated animals is known for its relatively longer association with human beings and known as “Poor man’s cow” in India. . The study was conducted to collect the information from the goat rearers regarding profitability of goat rearing in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra during year 2019-20. The data were collected through personal interview using a well structured questionnaire from 60 goat rearers. Three groups of farmers were identified on the basis of flock size i.e. small, medium and large.. The per flock per annum total cost incurred was Rs 131050.61, Rs 92863.82 and Rs 49105.97 in large, medium and small size of goat units, respectively. In general, total cost was Rs 91006.80 in which share of variable cost was 77.4 per cent followed by that of fixed cost (22.6 per cent). It was observed that, gross return was Rs 209501 per farm in large size of goat unit followed by Rs 137100.9 and Rs 68488.5 in medium and small size of goat unit. At overall level gross return was Rs 138363.46. The net profit in business was Rs 19338.52 in small size of goat unit, Rs 44237.67 and Rs 78450.38 in medium and large size of goat unit. At overall level net profit was Rs 47356.66 per goat unit. It was clear that output-input ratio was higher as 1.60 in large size of goat unit than that of medium (1.48) and small (1.37) size of goat unit. At overall level output-input ratio was 1.48. It inferred that the large and medium size of goat units were profitable than that of small size of goat unit because of variable cost is high in small size of goat unit.
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