A survey to identify economic opportunities for smallholder dairy farms in Bangladesh |
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| Authors: | M Shamsuddin W J Goodger M S Hossein Azizunnesa T Bennett K Nordlund |
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| Institution: | (1) Field Fertility Clinic, Department of Surgery and Obstetrics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh;(2) Department of Medical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA;(3) Present address: Department of Medicine and Surgery, Chittagong Government Veterinary College, Pahartali, Chittagong, Bangladesh |
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| Abstract: | Identified economic opportunities for planning interventions greatly increase farmers’ compliance with an extension programme.
We investigated opportunities for interventions to increase dairy farmers’ income in four areas of Bangladesh, including the
districts of Mymensingh, Khulna-Satkhira, Sirajgonj-Pabna and Chittagong. The data were collected from 1440 dairy farms at
a one-day visit and were summarized as the difference between management targets and each herd’s calculated management indices.
The average number of lactating cows, feed cost as a percentage of income from milk, milk sold as percentage of milk produced,
lactating cows as a percentage of mature cows, and lactating cows as a percentage of total cattle varied from 1.5 to 3.4,
from 52.5% to 92.1%, from 78.7% to 92.6%, from 81.9% to 86.7% and from 34.3% to 37.7%, respectively. The average age at first
calving, calf production interval, lactation length, and milk production were 35.0–44.3 months, 14.0–17.6 months, 249–286
days and 3.5–7.2 litres, respectively, depending on the locality. The average cost for producing 100 litres of milk was 18.9–35.1
US dollars. The production cost increased when daily milk production per cow decreased (r2 = 0.43–0.55). Management improvements directed towards increasing average milk production per cow per day, increasing lactation
length, decreasing age to first calving, and decreasing calf production interval could expect to yield an average income increase
up to a range of 676.3–1730.6 US dollars depending on the milk-producing area. |
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| Keywords: | Economic opportunities Mixed farming Market oriented Milk production Small-scale |
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