ABSTRACT
Income from cattle farming: Table 6-1 shows the summary of a farm enterprise income calculation for small, medium and large-scale cattle farming in the Dry Zone.103 In order to assess the impact of the opportunity costs of labour and capital, which vary between households, various indicators representing the farm enterprise income were calculated. The enterprise income I (see Table 6-1, row 4) has been derived by detracting the total costs, including depreciation on fixed assets, from the gross output, without
103As the fixed costs could be clearly attributed to cattle farming, the farm enterprise income was calculated instead of the gross margin. The same procedure was applied to all other livestock enterprises. .
