Lesser-known goat populations - Need for their characterization and recognition
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N.K. Verma
National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources
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Navneet Kaur
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Priyanka Mishra
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Goat, Indian goat, populationAbstract
Goats form an important constituent of Indian livestock and are reared mainly by small, marginal farmers and landless laborers. Low input, high prolificacy, small generation interval and easy marketing made this species an important source of livelihood for the poor people and hence also treated as ‘poor man’s cow’. Goat population, as per the last livestock census conducted in 2003, has been estimated as 124 million but a vast majority (about seventy percent) of this population is constituted by non-descript goats. There are twenty descript breeds of goat in India namely, Changthangi (J& K state), Chegu, Gaddi (Himachal Pradesh), Beetal (Punjab), Jamnapari and Barbari (Uttar Pradesh), Sirohi, Marwari, Jakhrana (Rajasthan), Kutchi, Mehsana, Surti, Gohilwadi, Zalawadi (Gujarat), Osmanabadi, Sangamneri (Maharshtra), Malabari (Kerala), Kanni Adu (Tamilnadu), Ganjam (Orissa) and Black Bengal (West Bengal). The accession numbers have been allotted recently to all the acknowledged breeds and published by NBAGR (NBAGR, 2008). Breed descriptors of some of these breeds have also been published from time to time in Indian Journal of Animal Sciences (NBGR 2008, 2009). Recently, one additional breed i.e. Attapaddy Black from Kerala has also been allotted the accession number after completing a comprehensive phenotypic and genetic characterization. But apart from these descript breeds there are many more populations existing in different parts of the country which are knocking to be included in the list of descript goat breeds of India. These populations appear to be distinct from the already known goats of its area but, for want of systematic studies for their characterization, have not been included among the descript goat breeds. There is no proper documented information available on these lesser known populations of goat, therefore an attempt has been made to collect information on some of such populations existing in different parts of the country and is presented here.
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