Dairy Goats in Thailand: Potential, opportunities and challenges

Dr.Sansak Nakavisut Bureau of Animal Husbandry & Genetic Improvement

Dept. of Livestock Development

THAILAND

Topic

• Livestock production overview in Thailand

• Dairy goat production

• Potential & Opportunities

• Challenges

Area: 514,000 km² Pasture Area 1,844 km2

Public Pasture Area 3,692 km2

Population: 66,720,153

Livestock Farmers: 3,421,337

Goat Farmers: 41,582 Dairy Goat Farmers: 1,914

THAILAND

2011

North

Northeast

Central

South

Species Import Export

Dairy Cattle 10,124 4,136

Beef Cattle 4,921 1,502

Sheep 515 13

Goat 4 0.07

Broiler 428 50,408

Swine 172 3,192

Duck 36 2,851

Layer 134 1,174

Buffalo 138 210

2009

M-Baht

Year Goat Meat

Goat

Dairy

Goat

Dairy

Cattle

2011 428 394 33 561

2010 380 351 29 529

2009 383 367 17 484

2008 374 345 29 470

Number of Goats x 1000 in Thailand

Meat Goat Dairy Goat

goat population 2002 - 2011

(DLD, 2011)

2011 2002

# Farms

# Goats: 427,567

density

Native goats well adapted to local conditions in the South

Goat Breeds

Southern Thai Native

Meat Goat Breeds in Thailand

Boer Anglo-Nubian

North-Native South-Native

Two-way crosses 50%Nubian-50%Native

Jamunapari Black Bengal

3-way crosses by ARDA-DLD (Boer-Anglo.Native)

Laoshan Saanen Dairy Goat

Alpine Toggenburg

Potential of Dairy Goat in Thailand

• National goat breeding program (byBAHGI)

– Goat Information Center for Breeding Improvement of

Thailand / Online Database

– National Genetic Evaluation / Test Day Model

• Biotechnology for goat production (byBBLP)

– Artificial Insemination & Embryo Transfer

• Extension program: Royal Demo Farm

MT-BLUP

EBVs Economic weights

a1, a2, a3…..

Livestock Breeding Stations DLD Network GOAT Farms Commercial Private Farms

Milk Traits, TDM …& Pedigree Information

Thai Goat Database

GICBIT Small Ruminants R&D Section

BAHGI DLD

BANGKOK

Index1

Index2

Index3

EBVs.

Genetic parameters estimation

of milk yield in crossbred dairy goats by random regression

test-day model

T. Thongchumroon*, M. Thepparat**, S. Anothaisinthawee*** and M.

Duangjinda** * Pattani Livestock Research Station, Nong Chik district, Pattani province

** Department of Animal Science , Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kean University ***Animal Breeding Division, Department of Livestock Development, Bangkok

EBVs of test-day milk & Pattern

-0.20

-0.10

0.00

0.10

0.20

0.30

0.40

5 25 45 65 85 105 125 145

Estim

ated

bree

ding

value

(kg)

Days in milk

137/41

126/44

191/42

49/42

139/44

Different genetic lactation curves of five sires

15,000 Doses frozen semen from 30 sires=> produce 3,000 progeny/year

AI Training for 200 staff & Farmers

AI Progeny of Saanen goats

ET progeny with surrogate does (2,300 Emb/year)

20

Extension Program

Under the Royal Dairy Goat Development Project

Activities

National Goat Day

190 cc 25 Baht

Drinking Goat Milk

Goat Milk Tablet

Value added products from goat leather

Challenges

• Milk drinking habit of Thais

• Goat odor in the goat milk

• Lack of skilled labor

• Scarcity of dairy goats & products

in some areas

Milk drinking statistics 2010

(liters per capita)

•Australia 102

•USA 92

•Japan 39

•Malaysia 50

•Thailand 14

Conclusion • # dairy goats and demand are increasing

• Great opportunity of genetic improvement

• Variety of products lead to increased prod.

• More R&D, breeding stocks are required

• Collaboration b/w countries/ regions is the

key to increase dairy goat production

Thank you for your attention