Economic profitability of milk production in sheds with a small numbers of cows
2004
Priekulis, J.(Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia). Faculty of Engineering. Inst. of Agricultural Machinery)E-mail:[email protected] | Latvietis, J.(Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia). Faculty of Agriculture. Dept. of Animal Science)E-mail:[email protected] | Auzins, V.(Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia))E-mail:[email protected]
At present in Latvia 77.6% of cows are housed in small sheds where size of the herd does not exceed 19 cows. Wish such number of animals it is not useful to apply up-dated machinery and technology and therefore much manual is used. The aim of our research was to state the economic profitability of production of milk in small sheds in the present economic situation in Latvia as well as after integration in the European Union (EU). The results of the research show that production of milk can be profitable at any size of the herd. But it is not efficient to use wage labour force, especially after the introduction of the EU cost levels. In the present economic situation in Latvia the use of wage labour force increases the production cost of milk by 1.3-1.7 times, but with the EU cost level - 2.0-4.5 times.
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