DETERMINANTS OF COST OF PRODUCTION OF MILK AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

Milk production is the biggest segment within India Agriculture. In the Indian context of poverty and malnutrition, milk has a special role to play for its many nutritional advantages as well as income generation for millions of farmers. Unlike other countries, India's dairy industry is facing the problems of low milk prices, prohibition of all the export benefits given to milk and value added milk producers exports as well as loss of indigenous cattle breeds due to cross breeding many factors are responsible for the cost of milk production. If usually depends upon, the cost of fodder, labour, maintenance and health care. The region wise average cost of milk production were studied.