Advances in Goat Management to Up-scaling Production

India is a agrarian country, having 2.4% of land resources, 4.0% of water resources feeding 11.6.% of livestock population and producing 18.5% milk of the world. The fact is that India is highest milk producer (155.50 million tonnes) of the world as well as of goat milk and second-largest producer of chevon in the world, even though country is second in goat population after China. In-spite of these facts, productivity of individual animal is poor, have immense scope of economic gains, if appropriate technological and marketing interventions are applied in the country for rearing these animals (Anonymous, 2016). The increase of goat population from 281.82 million in 1911 (British India) to 1351.73 million in 2012 (India) shows the peoples preference of rearing the species, while there are only 26.97% pure breeds of goats and rest of the population is either graded or non descript, which shall be taken into consideration for future breeding policy in the country. Similarly, average productivity of goat is only 0.45 lit per goat per year, while present productivity of goat is increased 1.5 times over a period of 74 years. However, production potential of selected goat breeds in India is significantly higher (1.06 to 2.50 kg per day) than national average, realized that still we have high potential animals in the country, which shall be exploited for increasing the productivity of the species.