TAMIL NADU VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY
CHENNAI - 600 051

International Conference on

SMALL HOLDERS’ GOAT PRODUCTION IN TROPICAL COUNTRIES –

OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS

Today is: 18-05-2024,

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Themes

GOAT PRODUCTION SYSTEMS

  • History and evolution of goat production systems

  • Goat production and management systems in the tropics and elsewhere

  • Challenges and opportunities for the tropical goat production system

  • Challenges and opportunities for the tropical goat production system

  • Production systems for fibre and hide

goat production system
goat genetic breading

GOAT GENETICS AND BREEDING

  • Genetic resources: breeds, status, adaptability and conservation

  • Genetic improvement in goat meat production

  • Genetic improvement in goat milk production

  • Goats in the era of genomics and phenomics

  • Status of whole genomic selection in goat breeding

NUTRITION AND FEEDING STRATEGIES

  • Goat feeding preferences

  • Feed and fodder resources for feeding goats

  • Technology, computation of ration and economics of feed and feed

  • Nutrigenomics

  • Emerging technologies for nutritional evaluation and precision feeding

  • Novel tree fodder for goat production

  • Agro-forestry and grazing management for goats

  • Nutraceuticals and functional feeds for goats

Nutrition and feeding strategies
Disease and Health Management

DISEASE AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT

  • Emerging diseases of goats in the tropics

  • Epidemiology, prevalence, prediction and forecast of goat diseases

  • Economics and evaluation of risk and loss due to goat diseases

  • Helminth and parasite control in goats with special reference to anthelminthic resistance

  • Ethnoveterinary practices in goat medicine

REPRODUCTION IN GOATS

  • Assisted reproductive technology in goats

  • Artificial insemination: status, scope and challenges

  • Biotechnological aspects of goat production

Reproduction in goat
Utility of goat rearing

UTILITY OF GOAT REARING: PRODUCTS, MARKETING AND EXTENSION

  • Economics, value chain, demand and supply, marketing and export opportunities for goat production systems

  • Composition, nutritional value, value addition and preferences for goat milk and milk products

  • Composition, nutritional value, value addition and preferences for chevon and related meat products

  • Technology transfer with special reference to goat production systems

  • Expert systems in goat production

GOATS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

  • Socio-economic bearing of goat husbandry with special reference to the tropics

  • Role of goats in climate change, greenhouse gas emission and global warming.

  • Goats and forests: ecology, deforestation and effect of grazing

  • Organic chevon production: status, feasibility and way forward

  • Climate resilient goat production systems

goats and sustainable development

MISCELLANEOUS THEMES

  • Goat as a laboratory animal and welfare of goats

  • Traditional knowledge on goats

  • Government policies and legal considerations related to goats

  • Artificial intelligence: smart goat farming

  • Goat species in the wild

  • Innovations in mechanization of goat husbandry