An Economic analysis of Buffalo Milk Production in Rural Area of Allahabad District (U.P)

Abstract

The present study entitled “An Economic analysis of buffalo milk production in rural area of Allahabad District (U.P.)” revealed that the Economic analysis in terms of cost of maintenance, return, farm income, profitability indicate that milk production is economically viable. Multi-stage random sampling procedure was adopted in the study. The district Allahabad was purposively selected. The study was conducted in 12 villages of two blocks of Allahabad district. Total of 180, milk producer households were selected, out of which 90 were in small size group, 58 medium size group and 32 were in large size group respectively. The survey method was adopted for the data collection in present study; for the year 2007-2008.The cost of maintenance of milch (buffalo) animal shows that maintenance cost was higher in large size groups followed by medium size and small size groups in all category of milch animals. The milk production pattern shows significant difference between all three different size groups. The milk production results revealed that the higher milk production was in large size groups followed by medium size group and small size groups in all categories of milch animals. The milk producer household with the higher herd size of animal holding obtained the maximum milk production. Therefore, their cost of milk production per litre was also lower compared to medium size and small size group in all the category of milch animals.