ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF DAIRY FARMING IN KANGRA DISTRICT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH
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2021-12
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UHF,NAUNI
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The present study entitled “Economic Analysis of Dairy Farming in Kangra District of Himachal
Pradesh” was conducted during 2020-21. Multistage random sampling technique was used for the selection of
the respondents from the randomly selected five blocks named Baijnath, Dehra, Kangra, Indora, Nagrota-Surian
out of 15 blocks. Then 2 villages from each selected block were selected randomly and 10 dairy farming
households from each selected villages were selected randomly to constitute a sample size of 100 for the
collection of the primary data. For the analysis of data all the dairy farmers were classified into three categories
on the basis of Standard Animal Unit and cube root frequency method viz., small category (≤5.52), medium
category (5.52-11.66) and large category (>11.66). Socio- economic analysis of the farmers revealed an average
size of 4.99 members with the literacy rate of 88.65 per cent and index of 2.51. Dependency ratio w.r.t to total
workers and w.r.t to family was 0.35 and 0.25. The cultivated land accounted for 67.22 per cent of total land
holding. The crop intensity of 178.60 per cent was found in the study area. The average no. of cattle units were
5.21 of which 7.73, 47.2, 23.99, 7.32, 11.20 per cent are local cow, crossbred cow, buffalo, young stock, heifer,
respectively. The study revealed that the average milk yield among the local cow found to be 2.88 litre per day,
crossbred cow 7.33 litre per day and in buffalo 4.65 litre per day, cost per litre of milk production was highest in
buffalo followed by local cow and crossbred cow Rs 39.53, 36.21, 29.24, respectively and highest returns were
noticed in crossbred cow followed by buffalo and local cow 8.04, 5.23, 0.29, respectively among sampled
households. The average daily milk production and milk consumption pattern was noticed 25.80 litre and 4.76
litre per day in sampled households. The marketable surplus was 21.04 litre and it was noticed that factors like
income land holding and total milk yield has positive relationship and family size has negative relationship with
the marketable surplus among sampled households. Main problems in the study area cost of feed and fodder,
scarcity of fodder, lack of credits and funds, lower price of the milk, labour intensive farming etc. It was noticed
that with the 1 per cent increase in the expenditure on the green fodder, dry fodder, concentrates and labour per
farm per day will change in the income 0.29%, 0.49%, 0.13% and 0.12%, respectively among sampled
households per day.