Professional rearing of goats in Rupandehi

BY OUR CORRESPONDENT

Butwal, Oct. 16: Women groups of various Village Development Committees (VDCs) of Rupandehi district have started professional rearing of goats. Makratar VDC of the district is considered to be a suitable place for goat rearing as there is a dense forest near the area.

Women are encouraged to involve themselves in looking after the goats in the VDC. They are given two baby kids as gift. When the goats give birth to baby goats, the women have to give the baby goats to other women.

According to Laxmi Aryal, chairman of Ward Number 8 of Makratar VDC and member of Animal Management Committee, there are a total of 28 women’s groups in her VDC.

"When the members of the group sell the goats, some amount is deposited in the fund of the group. The money collected is utilised for buying goats and give them to other new members," she says.

In Makratar VDC alone, women have collected Rs. 200,000 tiltlnow.

Chairman of Friends Service Council, an NGO working in the area, Surya Bahadur Thapa said that the organisation has provided goats to 45 poor and underprivileged families in the VDC.

Thapa further said that the success of the ‘goat gift’ programme has encouraged them to expand the programme to other areas as well.

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