Ibtada's Guide on Goat Breeding and Disease Management
About the Solution
This guide by Ibtada provides a comprehensive preventive healthcare framework for small-scale goat-rearing, a critical livelihood for landless and marginal farmers. It moves beyond treatment to focus on proactive disease prevention through a structured vaccination and deworming schedule, improved shed management, and nutritional supplementation. By detailing how to create mineral bricks and grow nutrient-rich Azolla at home, it empowers rearers to boost immunity and productivity sustainably. This holistic approach minimizes mortality, improves reproductive health, and maximizes income from goat herds.
Ibtada is a not-for-profit, non-governmental development organisation working in the Mewat region of Rajasthan. It is a grassroots effort dedicated to mainstreaming deprived women in the region through organising, educating, and empowering them. They operate in 550 villages across 8 blocks of Alwar, 1 block of Bharatpur, and 1 block of Dausa districts in Rajasthan, as well as 2 blocks of Jhansi and 1 block of Chitrakoot in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh. As part of its expansion efforts, Ibtada has recently begun interventions in Dausa and the Bundelkhand region.
They can be reached via:
Mail: info@ibtada.in
Training
Category –Capacity Building, Handholding, Knowledge Documentation & Resources, Monitoring Evaluation & Learning
Sub-Category – Disease Prevention in Goats
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Willingness to travel – Yes
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Institution / Trainer – Ibtada
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Short Description –
Audience: Goat rearers, Trainer, Practitioner, Community Resource Persons
Objectives:
- Reducing mortality among goats
- Ensure health preganancy and lower infant mortality
- Increase muscle mass leading to more income when selling the goats
- Production of goat milk
- Improvement in reproduction cycles