Economics of Dairy based cropping systems

In recognition of the importance of agriculture in national economies of majority of the undeveloped and developing countries in the world, thought has been given for formulation and implementation of programmes to increase agricultural production. In context of the limitation of crop production activities in providing gainful employment to farm families and their resources, it becomes imperative to the farmers to find out the alternatives production possibilities where they can use their surplus resources more advantageously and thereby derive additional income among the alternatives production opportunities open to the farming community, the important one is mixed farming, where combination of livestock enterprise, bee keeping, fish rearing etc. with arable farming much more than combination of diverse enterprise.