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Goat & Sheep Farmers Welfare Association (GSFWA) is a national body registered under the M.P. Societies Act of India vide registration number 01/01/01/28951/14. The Association is comprised of professionals & planners, scientists, entrepreneurs, commercial goat or sheep breeders & farmers, etc. associated with small bovine sector across India.
India is known for its distinct breeds of goats and sheep in good numbers. However the sector has remained static. Lack of suitable policies at government level and low infrastructure have limited the scope for right growth. Indian entrepreneurs get motivated from international news about the opportunities it carries. However due to lack of supportive government policies, outdated NABARD’s guidelines for funding of livestock projects, Banks & financial institutions’ rating of this sector as ‘high risk venture’ and there incompetence in technical appraisal of such projects has created an environment of fear and uncertainty among entrepreneurs to invest in organized commercial ventures for production of goat/sheep milk, meat and fiber.
Due to its highly unorganized shape, the farmers are being cheated by brokers and middlemen by way of paying 40 to 50 percent of the prevailing market prices on live body weight basis. Our wool fiber doesn’t fetch good price in International markets due to its poor quality and sheep farmers need technical support in overcoming this problem. Milk produced by the indigenous breeds of goats possesses excellent therapeutic values, carries tremendous demand and fetches premium prices in Metro and large cities.
Due to lack of infrastructure for machine milking, cold chain, processing and market linkages, producers are compelled to consume part of milk in house and sell the remaining portion at wholesale prices to local milk collectors at low prices. The same case remains for the Bucks and Rams reared for meat production.
In the absence of a common platform, the sector has remained ignored in the past. With an intention to provide technical support to producer farmers and to provide boost the sector, some existing commercial farmers, professionals and technocrats came forward to form a national level body to address these issue.
To promote and conserve the genetic purity of indigenous breeds of goats & sheep through intensive selection and breeding ;
To disseminate safe milking practices and scientific management of health and nutrition of goats and sheep amongst farmers, Self Help Groups and MahilaMandals.
To support establishment and management of goat and sheep research farms, goat and sheep breeding farms and demonstration units at strategic locations in India;
To facilitate the elimination of unscrupulous brokers and middlemen from marketing chain and to provide a free platform to farmers to sell Goat & Sheep at National and International mandis with maximum profits;
To organize goat and sheep fairs, exhibitions, seminars, goat and sheep farmers training programs;
To compile and publish Journals/Periodicals/ Newsletters /books and leaflets for the promotion of the objectives of the Association;
To facilitates liaison, affiliation and cooperation with the Central and State Governments and goat and sheep Research Institutes having similar objectives in India;
To establish goat milk processing and product manufacturing units and dairy plants for promotion of goat milk consumption with sustainable curative and therapeutic claims;
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