Adoption Index of Women Goat Farmers in Various Aspirational District of Niti-Ayog in West Bengal, India

The Small animal husbandry plays a key role in sustainable livelihood and income generation of the rural pro-poor stakeholders in India. The goat as farm animals has widest ecological range and most reliable livelihood resources of poor people since their domestication during Neolithic period of about 10 million years ago. Goat farming has tremendous potential for income and employment generation, especially in rural areas (Singh et al., 2015). This small ruminant plays a significant role in providing self-employment through supplementary income to millions of resource poor farmers and acts as a cushion in distress situations like draught, famine etc. India possesses an enormous goat population of 124.5 million i.e. 18% of the World population. (Anonymous, 2015). Goats and their products accounted for about 8.5% of value of livestock