Abstract:
The present study was undertaken to determine the socio economic characteristics of
dairy farmers and value chain actors, to identify existing and efficient value chain, to
measure production, relative profitability and value addition, to estimate productivity
and resource use efficiency of dairy milk production and marketing. For achieving
these objectives, 50 respondents were selected randomly and purposively from
Mohammad purthana and Dhamrai thana of Dhaka district. The sample included 30
milk producers and 20 value chain actors. Both primary data and secondary data were
used in the study. Both tabular and econometric techniques were used to find out the
results. Costs, returns, profitability, value addition were calculated separately through
tabular analysis. The result of the analysis showed that the total cost per day per cow
was estimated at Tk. 378.89 and net return was calculated Tk. 30.86 for a dairy farm.
The value addition for per liter of milk produced in dairy farmers, Faria, Bepari,
sweetmeat shopper was calculated at Tk.28.06, Tk. 1.63, Tk.2.53, and Tk.40.01. The
benefit cost ratio of dairy farming was 1.80. Findings of the study clearly indicated
that dairy farming was a profitable enterprise. Cobb-Douglas production function was
used to estimate the contribution of key variables of the production of dairy milk. The
functional analysis indicated that most of the selected variables had significant impact
on the production of dairy milk. This study also identified problems faced by dairy
farmers such as lack of credit, high labor cost, disease problem and inadequate
veterinary care, lack of sufficient electricity facility, expensive and inadequate feed
supply, lack of grazing land and green grass, lack of adequate extension services and
technical knowledge, shortage of capital, low quality feed, preservation problem, lack
of milk processing center, and high packaging cost. Ensuring easy access of
institutional credit,improve owner-labor relationship and veterinary service, supply of
high quality feed at subsidized price, allocation of khas lands for producing
fodder/grass, steady supply of electricity, ensuring technical knowledge and extension
service, and establishment of milk processing center were suggested to solve the
problems. The study also identified some major problems of other value chain actors
and probable solution to those problems. Finally, some recommendations were made
for policy implication.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Faculty of Agribusiness Management,
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka,
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN
AGRIBUSINESS & MARKETING
