1Research Scholar, Dairy Economics Statistics and Management Division, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal-132001
2Principal Scientist, Dairy Economics Statistics and Management Division, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal-132001
The present study basically focuses on decomposing the effect of crossbred technology in milk production in Jharkhand. Jharkhand government is making an effort to increase the milk production in the state by launching different dairy development programmes. It has even taken an important initiative by forming Jharkhand State Cooperative Milk Producers ’Federation (JCMF) in June 2013 by signing a MoU with NDDB. The primary data for this study was collected from 130 farmer beneficiaries. Bisaliah's decomposition analysis was used to analyze the data and the results were interpreted accordingly. When technology shifted from local cow to crossbred, the total change in yield was observed to be 80. 59 percent out of which 73.31 percent was contributed by technology and 7.13 percent was contributed by achange in input use level. The contribution of neutral technological change was found substantially high which was reduced by the negative effect of non-neutral technology. It indicates that crossbred technology has high yield potential but considerable efforts are required to improve the efficient use of inputs. The technology component (73 percent) has more shares in increasing the milk yield than the contribution of improved inputs and management practices (7 percent).
Bisaliah's decomposition analysis, Cobb-Douglas production function, crossbred cows, Jharkhand, technological change
