Study of procurement and processing of milk and milk products of Aanchal Milk Plant In Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand
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2020-11
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G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand)
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This study is conducted in Udham Singh Nagar Dugdh Utpadak Sahakari Sangh Limited, Khatima. It is a district level milk co-operative union registered under the brand name ‘Aanchal’. Attempt has been made to work out cost and returns of major milk products, financial efficiency of the dairy co-operative plant, factors affecting the level of milk procurement and constraints faced in milk procurement and marketing of milk products pertaining for the year 2018-19. Descriptive statistical tools, costs and net returns, financial efficiency ratios, OLS regression technique and Garrett ranking technique are used for achieving the objectives. The total cost per kg accounted in curd production was estimated to be `46.52, `296.44 in butter production while `301.32 in paneer production and `361.01 in ghee production. Butter is the most profitable milk product. Raw material cost was observed to be an important item of total cost for the production of major milk products. The net returns per kg obtained from butter production were `113.55 and for paneer production were `23.67, `3.36 from curd production and `108.99 for ghee production. The operating ratio, fixed ratio and gross ratio values were observed to be less than one and the capital turnover ratio for the year 2016-17 was 2.64 which increased to 2.71 in 2017-18 and later increasing to 2.94 for the 2018-19. The magnitude of coefficients of multiple determination (R2) indicate that explanatory variables in the regression model were responsible for 97 percent. The major constraints faced in milk procurement were fluctuation in prices, untimely and improper compensation and high expenses of feed and in marketing of milk products were diversification in products, lack of advertisement and insufficient storage facilities. On the basis of findings of the study, major policy recommendations emerged are interventions are required to educate the milk producers about technicalities of the enterprise and for effectively implementing the policies devised for the dairy development of the state, there is a need to motivate greater number of people to join the dairy co-operative plant and provide diversification in the milk products and use advertising strategies to make consumers aware about the milk products. Customer market-oriented research is required to attract the consumers.