Composition of a 100 cows dairy herd: 60-65 numbers of Cows in Milk and 35-40 numbers of
Dry Cows.
A. Fixed cost:
1. Land : 1.8 Acre for establishing Farm. We assume that we have land.
2. Livestock: 100 Shahiwal cross breed @ 80,000= 80,000 x 100 80,00000
3. Building :
a) Building cost for 65 cows ; 45 sq.ft per cow total 2925 sq.ft @ 600/sq.ft (2925 17,55,000
x 600)
b) Stanchion burn per cow 5000 for 65 cows ( 65 x 5000 ) 3,25,000
c) Baby calf shed for 100 calves-30sq./calf-total 3000 sq.ft @Tk 300/sq.ft 9,00000
(3000×300)
d) Heifer shed for 30 heifer 30 sq.ft/Heifer total 900 sq.ft @ Tk 400 (900×400) 3,60,000
e) Maternity shed for 5 cows (23’ x 8’ ) = 184 sq.ft @ Tk 750 1,38,000
f) Isolation Box ( 30’ x 8 ‘ ) = 240 sq.ft @ Tk 550 1,32,000
g) Feed storage and mixing room: (23’ x 15’) = 345 sq. ft @ Tk 650 2, 24,000
h) Office room: (30’ x 25’) = 750 sq.ft @ Tk 700 5,25,000
Total Building cost 43, 59,000
4. Utensils, Equipments, machineries @ furniture
a) Dairy Utensils 20,000
b) Others instruments 10,000
c) Vehicles 12,00000
d) Motor 12,000
e) Furniture 18,000
f) Others 10,000
g) Deep Tube well 4,00000
Total 16,70,000
TOTAL FIXED COST: ( 80,00000 + 43,59,000 + 16,70,000) 1,40,29,000
B. Recurring Expenditure:
1. Feed Cost:
a) Concentrate feed :
Assume, average milk production 12 litter, lactation period 285 days. For 65 22,23,000
milking cows concentrate feed requires 65 x 6kg /cow= 390 kg @ Tk 20 /
kgconcentrate feed cost for milking cows =( 390 x 285 x 20)
For 35 Dry cows 2 kg concentrate / day for 365 days @ 20 / kg Feed( 35 x 365 5,11,000
x 2 x 20)
For 70 calf per day 1 kg Feed @ Tk 20 / Kg for 365 days=( 70 x 365 x 20) 5, 11,000
Total concentrate Feed Cost = ( 22,23,000 + 5,11,000 + 5,11,000) 32,45,000
b) Green Grass:
For milking cow 15 kg green grass / Day/Cow for 285 days @ Tk .80/ Kg( 65 2,22, 300
x 15 x 285 x .80)
For 35 Dry Cows 10 kg green grass/ day/ cows for 365 days @ Tk .80/ kg( 35 x 1,02,200 .
10 x 365 x .80)
For 70 calf 3 kg green grass/ day/ Calf for 365 days @ Tk .80/Kg( 70 x 3 x 365 61,320
x .80)
Total Green Grass cost = (2,22,300 + 1,02,200 + 61,320) 3,85,820
c) Fibrous Feed or Straw 2,00,000
Total Feed Cost =( 32,45,000 + 3,85,820 + 2,00,000) 38,30,820
2. Personnel Cost:
a) 5 Labor Tk 5000 / month for 14 month = (5 x 5000 x 14) 3, 50,000
b) 1 Manager Tk 15,000 / month for 14 month= (15,000 x 14) 2, 10,000
Total 5, 60,000
3. Depreciation Cost:
For Building (2%) 87,180
For Equipments ( 10%) 1,67,000
Total 2, 54,180
4. Bank Interest on invested capital (1, 40, 29,000 ) @ 12% / year 16, 83,480
5. Medicine, Vaccine, Sanitation Cost 50,000
6. Electricity Bill 3500
7. Maintenance cost 10,000
8. Miscellaneous cost 30,000
TOTAL RECURRING COST 64, 21,980