The Black Bengal Goats is a dying species, a breed with high yielding flavourful meat and exotic hide. Goat farmers butcher the animals at a premature age wherein the offspring of this species do not mature to their full potential. Sanjevani Goats intends to solve the problem in the meat industry while simultaneously uplifting the lives of the impoverished goat farmers via preservation of good germplasm of Black Bengal Goats for artificial insemination. In the process, the farmers, who are at the Bottom of Pyramid, are taught superior goat farming techniques thereby elevating their socio-economic status through animal husbandry.

Awards received by the enterprise are:

Innovative Goat farmer Award, 2015 : Presented by ICAR Central Institute For Research On Goats (CIRG), Makhdoom, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh on the occasion Of Farms Innovator’s Day.

Progressive Farmer Appreciation Award, 2015: Presented by ICAR National Dairy Research Institute, (NDRI) ERS, Kalyani, Nadia & West Bengal University Of Animal & Fishery Science (WBUAFS), Mohanpur, Nadia for The Adaptation Of Newer Technologies In Goat Farming’.

Best Social Entrepreneur by IIM Calcutta Innovation Park, 2017: Ranked Top 50 in Smart Fifty Contest Organized By Department of Science & Technology (DST) & IIM Calcutta Innovation Park. 2018.

About Sanjevani Goats:

At their farm the entrepreneur maintains pure Elite Black Bengal Bucks which are collected from government authorised institutions certified to be free from any sexually transmitted diseases. Using industry agnostic techniques they collect the semen of these Black Bengal bucks which are then adequately frozen. The aim of the entrepreneur is to preserve the ‘Germplasm’ of pure Black Bengal Goats. Using cryogenic containers the Frozen Semen Dose are transferred to various distribution points in all the district of West Bengal.  Trained Artificial Insemination workers then collect the Frozen Semen Dose based on requirements from nanny goat owners. Farmers are charged a service fee for such insemination. Thus farm house owners, by way of artificial insemination with pure black Bengal ‘Germplasm’ breed raise healthy flocks of Black Bengal Goats. The entrepreneur currently runs the only institution in Bengal that successfully implements the frozen semen insemination.

The Entrepreneur: Kalyan Koley – Founder

Kalyan Koley is an avid animal lover.  Since childhood the Founder has spent his years in rural Bengal, farming and agricultural is his passion. In 2004, Kalyan graduated in Zoology after which he completed his training at Central Institute for Research on Goat at Makhdoom, Mathura, and U.P. He has taken his turn to save the World’s best ‘BENGAL GOATS’ through his ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION project titled ‘SANJEVANI KHAMAR’.

Kalyan strongly believes that his techniques can help individuals earn Rs 5000 to 10,000 per month. In order to create awareness, SANJEVANI KHAMAR is organizing various training programmes on a regular basis.