A REPORT ON Economic Analysis of Small Scale Dairy Farming at Some Selected Areas in Noakhali District

Abstract

The study was carried out at some selected areas of Noakhali district with the view to analyze the Comparative Economic Analysis of Cross breed Dairy Enterprises to local dairy breed enterprises at Some Selected Areas in Noakhali District. Total 60 sample farm were selected for each type of dairy farms of 60 cross breed farm owners selected randomly covering the Companiganj, Dagonbhuiyan and Kobirhat Upazilla. The study revealed that BCR on the basis of full cost for cross bred cattle were found in Companiganj, Dagonbhuiyan, Kobirhat were 1.42, 0.98, and 0.97 respectively and BCR on the basis of full cost for local indigenous local cattle were found in Companiganj, Dagonbhuiyan, Kobirhat were 0.65, 0.67, 0.52 respectively, which shows that the cross breed farming is more profitable than local breed but local breed cattle rearing traditionally is going on as a subsistence farming by using low cost easily available inputs of farm families. Finally, the study identified some important problems related to Cross breed farming at farmers’ level and made some remedial recommendations for improving dairy farming in the study areas.