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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The study was conducted to analyse the economics of dairy enterprise in selected watershed of Koppal district of Karnataka. The cost and return structure of dairy enterprise was analysed. Proportion of variable cost to the total cost accounted 77.39 per cent, 77.92 per cent and 82.99 per cent respectively and the remaining was fixed cost. The total fixed cost incurred was ` 9520.75 for cross breed cow, ` 7437.19 for buffalo and ` 4395.79 for indigenous cow. The net returns obtained were ` 17359.88, ` 10338.46 and ` 1366.98 for cross breed cow, buffalo and indigenous cow respectively. The dairy enterprise with cross breed cows and buffaloes were found profitable with a benefit cost ratio of 1.42 and 1.31 respectively, while the dairy enterprise with indigenous cows was not getting much profit with a benefit cost ratio of 1.05.