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Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Black Bengal farming is a traditional occupation and integral part of rural India’s symbiotic system of agriculture and livestock production for Jharkhand, it is a legacy breed due to superior quality meat and skin-Black Bengal goat farming play an important role in improving Black Bengal farming plays an important role in improving the socio- economic status of goat farmers was tribal/poor population of Jharkhand as compared to other livestock farming. The present investigations were carried out on Black Bengal goat maintained at AICRP BAU, from three agro climatic zone namely Central and North eastern plateau (IV), Western plateau (V) and South Eastern plateau (VI) Ranchi and Deoghar, East -singhbhum and lohardhaga were respectively selected for study. A cluster of four villages each from the four Districts above when villages namely Chamguru, Palajori, Barabanki and Tiko. Twenty farmers were each taken from each of the cluster making a total of Eighty farmers The study was conducted on 80 farmers, 1600 doe, 2499 kidding and their 4256 kids (male 2223 kids and female 2027 kids) during period six (6) years maintained under All India Coordinated Research Project on Goat Improvement [AICRP], Black Bengal field unit, BAU. From 2014 to 2020 Farmers having minimum numbers of 20goats were selected randomly. Reproductive and productive traits when studies in the experimental animals for molecular characterization for ten (10) goats were selected from each cluster village.