Vol. 11, Issue 12 (2022)

Author(s):
Nilam V Chaudhary, Anand P Chaudhary, Jay P Gupta, KP Thakar and AK Srivastava

Abstract:
Dairy sector is one of the fastest expanding occupation and demand for milk is growing day by day not only in cities, but also in small towns and rural areas. The data for this investigation was collected from 120 dairy farmers of Banaskantha district of Gujarat and these dairy farmers were classified based on land holdings as marginal, small, medium and large categories of dairy farmers, which were 28.33, 25.84, 27.50 and 18.33 per cent respectively. The average cost of milk production by CBC was Rs. 76397.93 per animal per year. It includes fixed cost and variable cost, which was Rs. 7240.81 and 69157.13 per animal per year, respectively. The overall cost of per liter milk production has been found Rs. 25.54. Overall net income was Rs. 11049.25 per animal per year and Rs. 30.27 per animal per day. On the basis of observations, it is concluded that net income from crossbred cows was highest for large farmers followed by medium, marginal and small category of dairy farmers.