More than 400 goats have perished due to an unknown disease in two weeks at laxmipur, Gatida and landula Sahi villages of Rayagada block in Gajapati district. The corpses of the goats were seen here and there at the villages. The disease is yet to be ascertained. “The goats are suffering from fever, cough and they died. Two or three days after that, they are dying one by one,” one of the locals said.
The goat farmers of the district are incurring a heavy loss due to this. “Though we have requested many times to the doctors of the veterinary hospital, they are not responding,” the goat farmers complained. Goat farmers, Shatrughna Gouda, Sukriya Pradhan, Jagili Paika, Mangala Badaraita, Gouda Sabara, Salaka Sabara and Raya Sabara demanded that the district administration take remedial steps immediately.