Invitro Embryo Production in Goats: Strategies and Future Prospects

Goat is a versatile domestic species that can thrive well with limited inputs. They have multiple economic traits and ever demanding market that makes goat a most preferred choice for the farmers especially with small land holding and is called known as “poor man’s cow or “moving ATM”. Despite high demand there has been a constant genetic wash as result of indiscriminate slaughtering with elite goats as most preferred choice for slaughter. This trending scenario for years has limited the availability of elite breeding animal in country. Today, Indian goat husbandry is featured with poor growth rate, low fecundity and poor milk yield. So, with limited genetically superior goats available it becomes important to conserve and propagate the superior germplasm of goat.