Abstract
The study was carried out in 5 Upazilas under Chittagong district with a view to analyze the present socio-economic status of RCC farming practices on 100 RCC rearers (Potiya, Raujan, Chandanaish, Anowara and Satkania Upazila). The study showed that, about 39.00 percent of RCC farm owners were landless, 31.00 percent were small and marginal farmers, 17.00 percent were medium and 13.00 percent were large farmers according to their landholding sizes. The cost of rearing RCC per cattle per year was found to be Tk. 17503.76, Tk. 15540.27, and Tk. 33044.03 as cash cost, non cash cost and total cost respectively. The study also revealed that, average daily milk yield, lactation yield and lactation length of RCC were found to be 2.71 liters, 581.61 liters and 215.41 days, respectively. The average per year per cattle gross return of RCC was found Tk. 25390.41. The gross returns over cash cost and full cost basis of rearing per lactation per cattle of RCC were found at Tk 8058.642 and Tk.-7501.53, respectively. The benefit cost ratio on the basis of cash cost and full costs per year per cattle was found 1.47 and 0.77, respectively. The study also revealed that, the rural farmers prefer RCC farming than other breeds due to high conception rate, each year calving, disease resistance, high milk fat per cent and cost effective farming. Keyword: RCC; Cost; Return; Profitability; Disease Occurrences DOI: 10.3329/jbau.v8i2.7937 J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 8(2): 271-276, 2010
Highlights
Livestock plays an important role in the agricultural economy of Bangladesh
The Red Chittagong Cattle are well adopted to adverse climatic condition and developed in disease resistance power, service per conception, lactation length, one calf per year production etc (Akhter et al, 2002)
The study revealed that BCR on the basis of cash cost in Potiya, Raujan, Chandanaish, Anowara at Satkania were 1.22, 1.14, 1.47 and 1.00 respectively, which shows that the RCC farming is profitable
Summary
The non-crop agriculture sector has registered significantly higher growth rate over the last few years. The share of this sector was 2.90 percent of GDP, which was 17.7 percent of agriculture and forestry sector in FY 2006-07. In the year 2006-07, production of milk and meat were 2.28 and 1.03 million ton respectively (Bangladesh Economic Review, 2007). The objectives of the study are as follows: i) To describe the socio-economic characteristics of the RCC farm owners, ii) To estimate per lactation cost and return of the RCC farming, iv) To identify some reasons for preference of rearing RCC and give some recommendations for improving Red Chittagong Cattle in Bangladesh
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