ABSTRACT
The investigation was conducted to review the situation of marketed surplus of dairy firms in Rupandehi district of Nepal with the objectives to examine the factors that affect marketed surplus of milk production in the study area. The survey was carried out for the milk farmers by collecting information from 100 sampled dairy farmers in five selected villages of the district. Descriptive statistics and least square regression technique were applied for the purpose of analysis. The factors such as, total amount of milk yield per day (β=0.714 litre), number of children under age six (β=0.423 litre), male farmer’s dairy household (β=0.974 litre), Age of farmer (β=0.003 litre) are found to be positively associated with milk-marketed surplus.
The factors like, size of family (β=0.02 litre), amount of milk self consumed in the family (β=0.578 litre), market distance (β=1.464 litre/km) and value added to milk (β=3.18 litre) are negatively related with the marketed surplus.
