Economic production of animal feed and milk analysis Dairy farm Belgravia

Abstract

This study was conducted at Belgravia Farm which was established near Blue Nile in the year 1907. The main units in the farm are the animal production unit and agricultural unit. The Belgravia Farm is established mainly for milk Provision for armed foces. However, the farm is now suffering from several problems such as high costs of inputs and unavailability of feed stuffs during most of the year months. Moreover, the farm resources are not fully exploited or allocated to their best maximum uses. The major objectives of this study are to determine optimal Combination of the forgae milk production in the farm and to suggest plans to maximize farm income. The data collected for this study are secondary data, which are obtained from farm records and monthly reports, primary data from direct interview of farm officials. A variety of analytical techniques are used, which include descriptive statistics, budgeting, regression analysis, linear Programming and least cost ration formulation. The results of the regression indicated that the most important factors affecting milk yield include number of lactating cows, berseem, Abu-70, concentrate, rain fall and temperature. Minimization results indicate that the current feed ration practice in Belgravia ration is not at the optimal use, and the optimal constitute of more barseem with nothing of Abu- 70 in the feed mix. The recommendations of the study go for using summer programme and well construction of the barn and reduction of concentrate in the feed mix