An Economic Analysis of Milk Production in Rural-urban Interface of Bengaluru

Study was carried out in the rural-urban interface of Bengaluru to address the rapid urbanization of the rural areas surrounding Bengaluru urban. Data from 240 dairy sample respondents, 120 non-dairy sample respondents were also drawn from different layers of South and North transects. Thus, the total sample size was 360. The results revealed that per day net maintenance cost for indigenous and cross-bred cows was 58.34 and 104.34, respectively, with corresponding yields of 2.39 lt and 5.13 lt. The cost of production of milk and gross returns realized were comparatively higher among cross-bred cows ( 77.66 and 127.56) than local cows ( 58.34 and 124.08). Milk marketing practices, the highest proportion of respondents followed marketing channel-II (54 %) and marketing channel III (48 %) in the marketing of milk produced by local cows and cross-bred cows, respectively. The per liter total cost of milk marketing was more in channel-III ( 1.26 and 0.61) than the channel-II ( 0.62 and 0.37) and channel-I ( 0.37 and 0.38) in the case of milk produced by both local as well as cross-bred cows.