Goat production is a very profitable agribusiness investment. For the 100-doe level investment of P455,275, an investor will have a potential net income per year of P79,788 for the first year, P300,676, the second year; P81,398, for the third year; P313,314, for the fourth year, and P225,661, for the fifth year. The investment opportunity in goat production, using the same assumption of projects costs and the technical assumption (the researchers did not included due to limited space) that we used in simulating this analysis, the payback period of investment (P455,275) is 3 years and 5 months while the Internal Rate of Return or IRR which NPV is zero is 43 percent (Appendix E). So, technically, goat production is a very profitable business, given this financial analysis. Appendix D shows the breakdown of project costs while Appendix E shows the Income Statement of the potential investment in goat production project and the net income analysis.

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