No job, so a hobby goat became a farm: 50 goats, Tk 25,000 a month
A Taraganj, Rangpur youth who could not find a job started in 2016 with Black Bengal goats bought from savings. He now keeps 50 goats with 20 more sharecropped out, averaging Tk 25,000 a month, and has bought a cow and land.
This young man from Dararpar village in Taraganj, Rangpur, passed his Dakhil in 2006 and went after jobs, but got none. While studying he had bought a Black Bengal goat as a hobby with his savings. In 2016, on his wife's advice, he took up goat rearing in earnest. According to a Prothom Alo report, in one year six goats gave birth to 24 kids, and the income from selling 12 of them was what led him to go into it fully.
By his reckoning, local goats kid twice a year. A six-month-old goat sells for Tk 6,000 to 6,500, and over six months a goat eats Tk 2,000 of feed in straw, fresh grass and bran. He raises them in the yard, feeding them jackfruit leaves, straw and bran.
In 2025 his farm had 50 goats, with another 20 given out on sharecropping (barga). Selling goats brings in an average of Tk 25,000 a month, and with that money he has bought a milk cow and land. He has given goats on barga to at least 10 families; a neighbour who bought goats from him and started a farm earns Tk 15,000 a month from 20 goats. His goal is a 200-goat farm.
Lessons
- 1.Tk 2,000 of feed over six months against a Tk 6,000 sale: keeping this per-goat arithmetic tells you when to sell.
- 2.Sharecropping goats out grows the herd without more space or labour, and builds a local network of buyers and keepers.
We published this with the person's permission, without revealing who they are.
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