Mrs. Bishnumaya Adhikari is the proprietor of Nabin and Nabina Agriculture and Livestock Farm. She is a house-wife. Her husband is actively engaged in trekking business. The backyard goat house has undergone some modernization as the sheds are built above the ground for appropriate management of goat dung to control the infection and non-infectious diseases, which absorbs more than 70 percent of the loan, which the firm owes to the farmers cooperative.

The male breed is also expensive. However, the shed lacks high-tech cooling and heating technology. Taking care of new born kids is still difficult during hard winter, particularly in the month of November and December. It takes a full year to well grow a local breed goat.

“We have to do everything on our own. The resource centre for goats are not available. The knowledge facilitation by local office with respect to reproduction, health, feeding, farm management, logistics, and many other aspects is minimum. The livestock veterinary service is also infrequent. We have lost 2 goats ever since we adopted goat farming as enterprise – one was a well grown male, while the another was a pregnant doe; the reason of the death could not be discovered,’ Mrs. Bishnumaya asserted. ‘It is also difficult to know if the goats are getting the proper nutrition they require,’ she added further.
Mrs. Bishnumaya did not get the insurance compensation. However, the incident made her to undertake a livestock insurance against the potential hazards of livestock’s death. She received a government subsidy of rupees 13600 against the insurance premium of rupees 17100.