Federal member for Parkes Mark Coulton reports that it is ideally located as up to 60 per cent of Australia’s feral goats are in NSW, particularly in its north-west region.

This week he toured the construction site, 14 kilometres north of Bourke on the Mitchell Highway.

The first stage of development includes a multi-level stockyard facility, on-site batching plant and evaporation ponds.

Capra Developments, comprising partners with meat industry experience in both export markets, processing operations and supply, secured all necessary approvals to build the abattoir.

It is scheduled to be operational by 2018 and expected to generate 200 jobs.

Mr Coulton said the project was a prime example of the benefits that could be achieved when the government and local government joined forces with “people with foresight and determination to bring a business venture to fruition”.

Capra Developments received $10 million under round two of the federal government’s National Stronger Regions Fund.

“This project is on track to inject millions of dollars into the local community through various channels from the construction phase through to the farming of goats and the operation of the abattoir,” Mr Coulton said.

“Capra Developments has set a target of processing 6000 goats a day in its third year of operation with probable markets in the United States, Canada, Taiwan, Vietnam and Korea.”

The National Stronger Regions Fund supports investment in a range of infrastructure in areas such as tourism, water, transport,  health and and sport, in a bid to provide “sustainable economic growth in areas of disadvantage”.

The program encourages communities to identify their own priority infrastructure projects and partnerships between not-for-profit organisations, local, state and territory governments as well as the private sector.