Bandur sheep breed has been acclaimed to be one of the most important and dominant indigenous breed of Karnataka and India. More than production, marketing was considered as important component in livestock sector. Bannur breed has been in limelight ever since its development and continues to be the only outstanding and the best Mutton breed of the State and Country. The present study was undertaken in Mandya district of south Karnataka, during the agricultural year 2012-2013. For the purpose of the study 16 villages were selected from the three talukas by adopting the random sampling technique. From each village, 6-7 sample farmers were randomly selected without categorising the farmers on the whole, 90 farmers were selected for the study. The data collected for the economic analysis of Bandur sheep rearing has been analyzed using pivot table. The results revealed that nearly 55 per cent of the farmers said they do marketing at the farm gate reducing transportation cost. Farmers who are taking indirect marketing, among those 35 per cent of them they pay very less amount Rs. 10-50 as commission charges to the middlemen. Majority (62 per cent) of the farmers are paying very less charge Rs. 15 for shearing of sheep. Most of the farmer nearly 63 per cent are marketing the sheep according to their convenience. Nearly 48 per cent of the farmers said they market the sheeps through middlemen (indirect selling). According to the farmers Bandur sheep have got high demand for itz meat in the market (100% of the farmers view) and 98 per cent of the farmers said meat is preferred because of it yummy taste.

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