INVESTMENT AND FEEDING PATTERN ON SAMPLE DAIRY FARMS IN BIKANER DISTRICT OF RAJASTHAN- AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Journal Title: International Journal of Agriculture Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 8, Issue 8
Abstract
The present study was carried out to determined the trends for investment, feeding and milk supply pattern on all sample Dairy farms obtained and five dairy farms having herd size of more than 20 milch animals was obtained were selected randomly in Bikaner district of Rajasthan- IC zone (a hyper AIW Plain Partially Area) during the year 2010-11. The results shows that including total cost of maintenance feed and fodder accounted for the major share (59.52 %) followed by labour cost (33.95 %), fixed cost (25.31 %) and miscellaneous expenses (1.15 %) on sample dairy farms. The C cost was 1867599.61 per dairy farm and 333449.99 per milch animal and the net income was 1053011.60 per dairy farm and 18803.77 per animal. The annual consumption of fodder and feed per dairy farm was 238.27 q. concentrates 740.41 q green fodder, 1189.17 q dry fodder and 5.03 q salt. Whereas the annual consumption of fed per animal was 7.74 q concentrates 24.76 q green fodder 39.69 q dry fodder and 0.18 q salt. The average milk production per lactation was ` 129374 liters per dairy farm and 4173 liters per animals. The average cost of production and net return and net return per liter of milk was ` 14.27 and ` 8.28, respectively.
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RAJU KUMAWAT
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