Vol. 7, Issue 2 (2019)
Milk-shed area of Dhenkanal Co-operative milk producers’ union (Odisha): A cost & return analysis
Author(s): S Behera, DK Swain, G Dash and N Das
Abstract: Milk is an important primary source of income for 70 million rural households engaged in dairying in India. The cost of milk production is an important tool for the evaluation of economics of dairy enterprise at producers’ level as well as for fixing the procurement price at Dairy Co-operative Society level and to ensure that producers get remunerative price for milk and consumers get milk and milk products at reasonable price. An efficient marketing system is one, which minimises the cost of marketing, so as to ensure the largest share of producers in consumer’s price. Keeping in view the milk marketing situation in the country, the study “Milk-shed area of Dhenkanal Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union (Odisha)â€: A Cost & Return analysis†was undertaken in these aspects, to work out the cost and returns of milk production in the study area. Analysis of cost of milk production provides clues to the decision making bodies and helps the decision support system to understand whether or not farmers get remunerative prices. The cost of milk production, it is important to discuss here the physical quantities of feed and fodder fed to different species of animals in the study area as major share of cost goes towards the expenditure on feed and fodder. The feeding pattern during data collection period in the study area included green fodder, dry fodder and concentrates. Productivity of different milch animals has an economic significance. The cost of the local cow ranged from `25,000 to `30,000. In case of crossbred cow most of the farmers had Jersey cow. The cost of the crossbred cow ranged from `35,000 to `50,000. Mostly the dairy farmers of the area reared local buffalo namely Chilka which costs about `25,000 to `32,000. Judicious utilisation of feed, fodder, labour, health care management and other cost component, which constitute the bulk of the cost of rearing dairy animals, can be managed to accrue handsome profit even in a situation of meagre resource endowments. Cost and returns of milk production of milch cow, milch buffalo and milch crossbred cow has been depicted to analyze the actual figure of Dhenkanal Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union.
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S Behera, DK Swain, G Dash, N Das. Milk-shed area of Dhenkanal Co-operative milk producers’ union (Odisha): A cost & return analysis. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(2):2106-2112.
