but highly valuable animals remain mostly neglected in livestock development programmes. Official estimates show that nearly 9,600 tonnes of sheep and goat meat, worth around 537.2 crore ($66.92 million), was exported in 2022-23 to destinations like the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, the Maldives, and Oman. The domestic consumption of both mutton (sheep meat) and chevon (goat meat) is also steadily increasing despite their prices being far higher than the meat of chickens, buffaloes, and pigs. The net worth of the sheep and goat meat sector, comprising over 1.41 million tonnes of chevon and 1.02 million tonnes of mutton, was reckoned at nearly ₹1.38 trillion in 2022-23.
Yet, sheep and goats, termed technically "small ruminants", have not been paid attention on a par with other meat-producing animals for raising their productivity. Nor has much investment, public or private, gone into the modernisation and development of the value chain of their produce. Consequently, sheep and goats continue to be reared largely by the poor and the landless people as backyard livestock, or by the nomadic herdsmen moving their flocks from one place to another in search of pastures and community grazing lands. They are fed mostly on scrub vegetation, or lopped tree leaves, without any supplementary concentrated feed. Commercial sheep and goat farms, on the lines of dairy and poultry farms, or piggeries, have not come up in India in any significant number.
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