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.