Goat husbandry is one of the important components of the livestock sector. Goat sector provides subsidiary source of livelihood to the people especially to small and marginal farmers and landless labourers.The study was carried out in Bihar state which comprised of three agro-climatic zones. For current study a total of 24 villages selected from the randomly selected six districts. Ten respondents (who owned at least 5 goats) from each village were selected randomly in a way to make a sample size of 240. Data were collectedto study the production performance and marketing practices followed by goat farmers. Analysis of data revealed that more than 70 per cent farmers from all three zones had reared Black Bengal goat (75.80 %) reported 380-460 days of age of goat at first kidding followed by less than 380 days average kidding interval of goat was 273.82 days in the study area, majority of goat farmers (68.80%) had obtained about 10 to 32 kg lactation yield, majority of the overall respondent’s (49.60 %) had twinning followed by single kidding (40 %), triplicate kidding (8.30 %) and Quadruplicate (2.10 %) kidding. Results further revealed that majority of the overall 75 per cent goat farmers were lacking of organized market for goat trading, 90 per cent farmer were lacked information on marketing, 69.17 per cent did not follow marketing plan, 80.42 per cent did not perform survey of price before selling of goat.

Keyword: Marketing practices; Production performance; Goat farmers; Kidding interval.