Hambantota farmers taking up goat farming

Raja Waidyasekera, Tissamaharama special correspondent

Goat farming is now a profitable enterprise in Hambantota district.

The district is part of the dry zone and the natural vegetation in the district comprises tropical dry plants and grass species.

The important trees in the region have become fodder for the goats.

The potentials in the goat milk industry remain untapped yet. Goat meat industry also has not developed in the district due to religious taboos.

Goat milk is more nutritive and contains eleven times more iron compared with cows milk.

Goat breeding has become a profitable enterprise in the Hambantota district because the financial investment is very low, requires less space and simple housing and better adaptability and thrives easily on natural grazing.