Do Producers Gain from Selling Milk?: An Economic Assessment of Dairy Farming in Contemporary India

[...]comprehensive as well as differentiated estimates of producer prices may be useful in assessing the viability of the sector in the national and global markets. In the sample selection, greater emphasis has been attached to the rural character, greater dependence on crop cultivation, and the ext...

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Published in:Economic and political weekly 2017-06
Main Authors: Ghosh, Nilabja, Tripathi, Amarnath, Rajeshwor, M, Singh, Roopal
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agriculture
Cooperatives
Dairy products industry
Economic growth
Economic reform
Farmers
Marketing
Milk
Milk production
Prices
Profits
State government
Urbanization
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Summary:[...]comprehensive as well as differentiated estimates of producer prices may be useful in assessing the viability of the sector in the national and global markets. In the sample selection, greater emphasis has been attached to the rural character, greater dependence on crop cultivation, and the extent of poverty. [...]the Khagaria district's share in the grand total of sample size being 32%, far higher than its 5% share in the census population, is a mark of the added weight attached to this relatively rural and economically backward region. The households were asked to respond to questionnaires soliciting information on the number and value of milch animals in stock; the proportion of the produce that was held back for home consumption, cost of feed, price fetched from selling milk and returns from milk production, calculated as the difference between the cash revenue received from selling milk (price into the actual quantity sold); and the total paid cost on feed and medical services. Sales to private dairy firms were also considerable, standing at 24% in the meta-sample, while cooperatives had the lowest share in procuring milk from producers, meagre even when compared to purchases made by sweet shops. [...]the households surveyed in the present study relied only marginally on the cooperative system for marketing their produce.
ISSN:0012-9976