By Our Correspondent
Hetauda, ​​Mar. 9: The goat development farm at Chitlang in north Makwanpur is becoming a goat resource centre for advanced breeds.
Sheep and rabbits have been re-introduced in the farm, which has been developed as a resource centre for Sanan and Khari breed goats for the last 20 years.
The farm is located in Chitlang of Thaha Municipality-10 where a pasture area was established at Indrasarowar Rural Municipality in 2001 BS as a sheep development farm.
The farm is celebrating its 78th anniversary this year.

Goat rearing was started by removing sheep from the farm in August 1999 and was transformed into a goat development farm in 2001.
Manager of the farm Bablu Thakur informed that sheep and rabbit rearing have been added again after the farm came under the Bagmati province government.
The farm, which is spread over an area of ​​305 ropanis, has recently been managed by grass farming along water masses.
Since the establishment of the farm, the local Kage breed sheep are being reared.
Since the establishment of the farm, local Kage sheep were being reared, the hybrids produced from the Ramulet and Merino breeds were being distributed to the farmers from the fiscal year 1986/87.

After the government took the policy of privatisation, the company was handed over to the Makwanpur Meat Processing Centre to operate on lease for ten years on September 5, 1993.
However, the company returned to the ownership of the government from the private sector within a year after it was unable to operate, Thakur said.
Stating that the farm is being developed as a resource centre for Sanan goats, angora rabbits and cocksfoot grass from 1995/96, he said that the farm has been facing problems, including lack of manpower.

The farm currently has 298 goats of Sanan, Khari, Sanan Cross and Sinhala breeds, 56 sheep of Baruwal breed and 63 rabbits of Soviet Chinchilla and California breeds.
After the farm came under the control of the provincial government, the work of modernising the farm has been intensified to develop the farm as a source of goats.
Stating that the focus is now on goat, sheep and rabbit herd improvement and grass management and development of pasture area, Thakur said that the farm should be developed as a research centre for goat, sheep and rabbit research and development of goat according to geography.

Stating that commercial farmers should be given training on technology transfer and consulting as well as research and development of goats, he said that the goat development farm should be developed as a provincial goat research centre.