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Scapegoats are among the main meat- producing creatures in India, whose meat( chevon) is one of the choicest flesh and has huge domestic demand. Due to its good profitable prospects, scapegoat parenting under ferocious andsemi-intensive system for marketable product has been gaining instigation for the once couple of times. High demand for scapegoat and its products with eventuality of good profitable returns have been inferring numerous progressive growers, businessmen, professionals,ex-servicemen and educated youths to take up the scapegoat enterprise on a marketable scale. pic1The arising favourable request conditions and easy availability to bettered scapegoat technologies are also catching the attention of entrepreneurs. A number of marketable scapegoat granges have been established in different regions of the country.
An jobless agrarian graduateMr. Deepak Patidar occupant of vill- Sundrail, District- Dhar, Madhya Pradesh attended a Training Programme on Commercial Goat Farming organized by CIRG, Makhdoom for 10 days in the time 2000. Being inspired and motivated by the scientists of CIRG he started a Goat Farm( Ekta Agronomic and Livestock) in his vill in the time 2001. The ranch was established with 60 original scapegoats reared under cube- fed ferocious system of operation. originally he faced a number of problems like high cost of product, mortality and low price of the yield. Under a design on Commercialization of Goat husbandry and Marketing of scapegoats in India, the scientist from CIRG visited his ranch and suggested changes like strain( Sirohi), preparing pure strain creatures as breeding stock and effective marketing strategy and strengthening liaison with the other growers. contemporaneously he also entered specialized guidance from the scientists of CIRG on health operation of scapegoats. ConsequentlyMr. Patidar introduced changes in his scapegoat ranch. Accordingly his scapegoat husbandry design came feasible and profitable.Mr. Deepak Patidar remained pic2continuously in touch with the scientists of CIRG through Scientist- Farmer Interactive Meets and forums and has been using rearmost scientific information on scapegoat product for his benefit. The mortality in grown-ups and kiddies, which was 10 and 40 independently in the morning, now has dropped to about 3 to 8 per annum. Presently he has 180 scapegoats in his ranch and prepares pure strain creatures substantially of Sirohi strain of scapegoat for dealing them as breeding stock to the growers and entrepreneurs. He also has some scapegoats of Barbari, Jakhrana and Janumapari strain. He sells his scapegoats only on live body weight base at the rate ofRs. 120 toRs. 200 per kg of live body weight. At present the periodic gross profit of the scapegoat ranch isRs. 4 to 5 lakhs and total periodic expenditure isRs.1.5 to 2 lakhs giving an periodic net income ofRs. 2 to 3 lakhs.

Patidar has come a well honored marketable scapegoat planter of Indore Region and colorful affiliated government departments, NGOs and growers consider him as a progressive scapegoat planter. He’s being invited as a resource person on scapegoat husbandry in different training programmes organized by the Beast Husbandry department and original NGOs. Till date about 1000 growers and trainees have visited his ranch. Now he’s developing and strengthening liaison with the small/ traditional scapegoat growers of the area for taking up strain enhancement and organized marketing.