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ArticleItem Open Access Constraints in Backyard Goat Farming in Cauvery Delta Zone – The Farmers’ Perception(2018) Senthil, R; Senthil Kumar, G; Serma Saravana Pandian, A; Thamil Vanan, Thanga.; Mohamed Safiullah, A; TANUVASThe present study was undertaken to investigate the constraints faced by backyard goat farmers in Cauvery delta zone of Tamil Nadu. The data was collected through a semi-structured interview schedule containing lists of constraints were asked to rank them. The data were tabulated and Likart score technique was adopted to analyze the constraints as perceived by the respondents. The study revealed that non-availability of vaccination, lack knowledge about balanced feeding, non-availability of improved breeding bucks, low market price for goat and lack of knowledge about goat rearing were the main constraints in the major domain of health care, feeding, breeding, marketing and others constraints.ArticleItem Open Access ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF GOAT FARMING IN CAUVERY DELTA ZONE OF TAMIL NADU(2022) Senthil, R; Senthil Kumar, G; Serma Saravana Pandian, A; Thamil Vanan, Thanga; TANUVASA study was conducted to analyse the economic and technical efficiency of goat farming in Cauvery Delta zone of Tamil Nadu, India. The primary data were collected by interviewing 180 goat farmers selected by multi-stage random sampling using pre-tested interview schedules during January to April 2017. The sample comprised of 87 small farmers (15 goats). The total fixed investments for goat farming were Rs. 14055.16 (small farmer), Rs. 29136.40 (medium farmer) and Rs. 70826.60 (large farmer). The total gross returns per farm for the above categories were Rs. 6241.94, Rs. 9607.04 and Rs. 12910.11, respectively. Overall, goat farming yielded a total return and net return of Rs. 10496.38 and Rs. 6248.92 per farm per annum, respectively. The break-even analysis revealed that small farmers required to produce 20.60 kg of chevon annually to reach break-even point, 51.02 kg and 222.96 kg by medium and large farmers, respectively. The ratio of marginal value product (MVP) to marginal factor cost (MFC) for flock size, labour charges, medicine and vaccination charges were more than unity in all the categories of the farms, which indicated underutilization of resources. The stochastic frontier production function analysis revealed that labour charges had significant (p<0.01) positive influence on the chevon production in all categories of farms. The average technical efficiencies were 74.65, 83.41, 86.54 and 80.36% in small, medium, large and overall categories of farms respectively. The sub-optimal technical and resource use efficiency warrants scientific management practices among goat farmers.ArticleItem Open Access ECONOMIC LOSSES DUE TO MORTALITY AMONG GOATS IN TAMIL NADU(2022) Senthil, R; Senthil Kumar, G; Serma Saravana Pandian, A; Thamil Vanan, Thanga; TANUVASA study was conducted to explore various causes of mortality and to quantify the economic losses due to adult and kid mortality among goat farms in Cauvery Delta zone of Tamil Nadu. The primary data on mortality of goats and their causes were collected through personal interview using the pretested interview schedules from 180 goat farmers in the study area. Direct and indirect losses due to mortality of goats and kids were estimated based on the valuation of animals died and opportunity cost viz., cost of additional feeding, management and treatment cost. Diseases like pneumonia, tetanus and diarrhoea were the major contributors to the mortality in adult goats and kids (46.51 and 50.75%, respectively). The annual loss due to mortality of adults worked out to Rs.2016.94/farm and Rs.271.45/animal and for kids as Rs.578.88/farm and Rs.77.90/kid. It was inferred that sensitization programmes on kid management and doorstep veterinary services could address the major reasons of adult and kid mortality, thereby reducing the economic losses due to mortality.ArticleItem Open Access Incidence of Rabies in a Stray Pony(2014) Rishikesavan, R; Palanivel, KM; Saravanan, S; Senthil, R; TANUVASRabies is a neurotropic viral disease causing fatal encephalitis in mammals that is almost invariably acute and fatal once the clinical signs develop (OIE, 2005) and there are no drugs available to cure this disease (Anil Patyal. 2012). Every year more than 30,000 people are reported to die from rabies and the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 15 million people receive post exposure treatment (WHO, 2013). In India, rabies occurs in human and animals through bite of pet animals (dog) and/or wild animals. The infection occurs by entry of the virus in to the bite Wound through the saliva of the infected animals (Madhusudana, 2005). The incubation period of this neuropandemic disease varies from 2 weeks to 6 years in animals (WHO, 2013) and 7 days to 9 years in humans (Palanivel et al., 2011).