Journal of Fisheries & Livestock Production
Open Access

Research Article

Feasibility for a Sustainable and Profitable Local Goats Production

Madu HK¹, Omar NA² and Zailani SA^3*

¹Department of Agriculture Technology, Federal College of Horticulture, Dadin Kowa, Gombe state, Nigeria

²Area Veterinary Clinic, Ministry of Animal Resources, Bauchi Bauchi State, Nigeria

³Department of Animal Health, Bauchi State College of Agriculture, Bauchi Bauchi State, Nigeria

Corresponding Author:

Zailani SA
Department of Animal Health
Bauchi State College of Agriculture
Bauchi Bauchi state, Nigeria
Tel: +234 803 21 00735
E-mail: sazailani@hotmal.com

Received date April 04, 2016; Accepted date April 13, 2016; Published date April 19, 2016

Citation: Madu HK, Omar NA, Zailani SA (2016) Feasibility for a Sustainable and Profitable Local Goats Production. J Fisheries Livest Prod 4:181. doi:10.4172/2332-2608.1000181

Copyright: © 2016 Madu HK, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

This publication provides some of the important and basic information frequently requested by farmers considering commercial goat production as a profit making venture or a business enterprise. In order to meet up the Agricultural transformation agenda of the federal republic of Nigeria as well as the effort to diversify the economy of the country, Agriculture (animal husbandry) must be brought to focus and must be given due priority. This feasibilty is design to encouage and to enlighten prospective farmers on the basic requirements of setting up the goat production as an industry and a means of livelihood. We have dwelled on issues partaining to land selection/acquisition, design of the house, facilities required (including personnel), selecting of the animals and breeding/health program. Moreover, the general production and productivity of goats were expantiated and the aspect of marketing the products such as meat, milk and to lesser extent the manure. Lastly the issue of business sustainability was mentioned through the incorporating the farm workers as shareholders of the business, so as to encourage them put in their best and to help in maximizing profit of the business.

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