Article

 

Research Note - Economics of Milk Production in West Bengal: Evidence from Cooperative and non-cooperative Farms (p.132-152)

by

Bikash Kumar Ghosh, KHARAGPUR COLLEGE & CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC STUDIES

Debnarayan Sarker, CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC STUDIES

Keywords : Primary Milk Producers’ Cooperative Societies, Cooperative farms, Non-Cooperative farms, BPL farms, Relative profitability analysis.

JEL classification : Q12, Q13, Q18, C50, A13

Abstract

The article analyzes the cost, return and relative profitability of cooperative and non-cooperative milk producers’ in West Bengal of India; it is found that cooperative farms have much higher profitability. Furthermore, non-BPL farms working under both cooperative and non-cooperative dairying are benefited higher than BPL farms.