A Study on marketed surplus and disposal pattern of milk in the North-Eastern state of Nagaland

Abstract

The present study was undertaken during 2010-11 to estimate the marketed surplus and existing disposal pattern of milk in Nagaland.  Overall 12.26 litres of milk were produced per day per household out of which 1.74 litres were consumed per day per household. Thus, the overall marketed surplus of milk was 10.52 litres per day per households which was 85.83 per cent of the total milk produced. So, the consumption of milk across different household categories (small, medium and large) was very low resulting in relatively higher marketed surplus of milk. It was found that total milk produced had a positive and significant (P <0.01) effect on the marketed surplus of milk. The study suggested the need for more government incentives to encourage the farmers for commercial dairying as this would in turn increase the production and marketed surplus of milk for higher return. It was found that relatively higher percentage of marketed surplus of milk was disposed off to unorganised sector (consumers) than Milk Producers Co-operative Societies which would be due to relatively lower price being paid by cooperatives based on fat and SNF percentage.