Author(s): Bendre Omkar, MS Jadhav, HR Shinde, BJ Deshmukh and KJ Patil

Abstract: The cost of goat farming is a crucial economic metric for evaluating the productivity of farm households in goat production and serves as the foundation for setting prices. The aim of the research was to investigate the costs and benefits related to goat farming in Satara district of Maharashtra. Based on the number of goats, the study gathered 90 goat farmers who were divided into three groups: small (up to 10 goats), medium (11-20 goats), and large (more than 20 goats). According to the study, the profits made by large goat farmers were more than those made by medium and small goat farmers and in the cost’s aspects, where large goat farmers high cost of farming than the medium and small. Labour cost have highest contribution in production cost (49.76 per cent at overall) followed by concentrate cost (14.86 per cent). The sale of goats per flock was found to be higher in the large size flock (41.06) than in the medium and small size flock (23.78 and 11.7).

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