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“A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY ON AUTOMATION, COST ANALYSIS AND QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN URBAN DAIRY SECTOR”

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Title “A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY ON AUTOMATION, COST ANALYSIS AND QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN URBAN DAIRY SECTOR”
 
Creator Y. BHAVYA
 
Contributor Dr. SURESH RATHOD
 
Subject animal husbandry, economic systems, costs, technological changes, productivity, livestock, animal population, manpower, milk products, sampling
 
Description This study was undertaken to get a comprehensive idea about prevailing automation and infrastructure, cost analysis and the quality of milk produced by the urban dairy sector. The study was carried out in ten urban commercial dairy units in and around Hyderabad city using a structured interview schedule and for quality assessment of milk samples a three strata assessment was done using ten samples each from production, preservation and supply chain. The dairy units under study were categorized based on their level of use of the automation and infrastructure into fully automated and semi-automated units which were in 40% and 60% respectively. As the herd size increased above 700 it was noticed automation in all the operational areas of the dairy farm but it is an exception where there is plenty availability of labor.Results of the survey revealed that majority of the dairy units are using bucket milking machines (40%) and observed that as the herd size increased they are using rotary (30%), herring-bone parlour’s (20%) and combination of buckets and parlour’s (10%). Use of automation in the rest of the areas like storage and processing of milk, feeding, watering, identification, waste handling and storage and summer management ranged from 40-80%. The information drawn from studies is helpful to the
farmers to opt the automization and modernization to obtain optimum benefits from the dairy farming. It was found that these automated dairy units were owned mainly by the middle age group graduates.
In the fully automated dairy units the mean herd size (1074), fixed costs (Rs.136497785) and variable costs (Rs.9677180) are higher than in the semi-automated dairy units which have mean herd size of 331 with fixed costs Rs.60980118 and variable cost Rs.55987.3. As per the cost analysis it was found that among the variable costs, feed costs were very high(87.82 %) followed by labor cost (5.47%).In comparison to fully automated dairy units the semi-automated dairy units were using 2.7 times more labor units for every 100 units of herd which means that fully automated units were optimally utilizing the labor. The Cobb-Douglas production function analysis showed that the capital cost (3.406**) and medicine cost (2.704**) have positively and significantly (p
 
Date 2016-12-27T13:23:01Z
2016-12-27T13:23:01Z
2016-10-01
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/93213
 
Relation D;483
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher PVNR TVU