सिंहदरबार संवाददाता
Patan. Friends of 41-year-old Deepak Chand of Jalhalla, Sigas Rural Municipality-9, Baitadi, are in India in search of employment. Most of the youth in the village are in third countries.
Deepak, on the other hand, is in the goat farming business in the village. He has no problem managing the education expenses of his children and his family through the goat farming business. ‘It’s not that I haven’t thought of going out, but I started raising goats professionally because I felt I had to do something in the village,’ he said. ‘The income is also going well according to my hard work.’
Deepak, who has been raising goats professionally for the past six years, currently has more than 70 goats of local and Boer cross breeds on his farm. Of these, 47 are mothers, eight are goats and the rest are offspring. A well-organized cage has also been built for them.
‘I went to India for four years for employment, I worked as a security guard, the salary was only 3,500 rupees, I felt that there was no proper evaluation of labor there, now I have registered a goat farm in my village and moved forward professionally,’ he said. ‘Now I earn up to 6 lakhs annually.’
Although I have been doing goat farming business before, I registered Udaydev Agriculture and Livestock Farm in 2075 BS and moved forward professionally, he informed.
‘We sold about 40 goats and cows just two weeks ago, we have no problem finding customers, most of the businessmen come to my house to buy,’ he said. Mrs. Narendra Chand said, ‘Even grazing does not have such a problem, we are satisfied with the business.’
The Chand couple say that they have been receiving vaccinations to control PPR disease in goats and necessary technical support for business promotion from the Veterinary Hospital and Animal Service Expert Center, Patan.
After they started earning good income from goat farming, other people in the village have also started getting attracted towards this business. Krishna Chand, a local from the same place, has also started goat farming with the necessary support from goat farmer Deepak.
He said that he started raising goats commercially since 2078 BS because of the good potential for income. “It cost about 400,000 rupees to build the barn, there are 40 goats, both local and Boer, the income is also good,” he said, “The household expenses are being managed from this.”
He said that an unknown disease in goats is bothering him. “Last year alone, 20 goats died of illness, we had to bear some losses, this is the challenge,” Krishna said.
Gumani Pant, head of the Veterinary Hospital and Animal Husbandry Expert Center, informed that the Goat Model Farm Program is in the implementation phase for farmers engaged in goat farming this fiscal year. She said that applications have been invited for the program and the selection process is underway.
प्रतिक्रिया दिनुहोस्