India has the largest goat population in the world and majority of goats are reared by the marginal, small farmers and landless labourers under extensive management system. This paper highlights the impact of training programmes on the knowledge of the trainees participated under national and sponsored training programme on scientific goat farming at Central Institute for Research on Goats (CIRG). Average knowledge scores have been calculated for the participants of four national and sponsored training programme through pre and post examination. Average knowledge scores of pre and post training programmes were increased significantly in all the training programmes under study. These training programmes not only help to improve efficiency of goat farmers but also provide a roadmap to the commercial goat farmers through introducing them with improved goat technologies. The study suggests that the frequencies of such short duration training (10 and 5 days) should increase to benefit more number of goat farmers

Keyword: Goat farming; Training; Knowledge scores; Goat technologies;