Practices of Clean Milk Production, Management and Decent Work in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

Muhammad Tariq

No 40, ICDD Working Papers from University of Kassel, Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften (Social Sciences), Internatioanl Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD)

Abstract: This study aimed at determining the factors influencing clean milk production in Faisalabad, the third-largest city of Pakistan with more than three million inhabitants. A semi-structured pre-tested questionnaire was used to collect data following a snowball sampling approach. Interviews with each 60 semi-commercial small-scale (SCSS), commercial small-scale (CSS) and commercial large-scale (CLS) peri-urban milk producing households (HH) keeping mixed herds of cattle and buffalo were carried out during February and March, 2018. Interviewed households had a dairying experience of 10 ± 7.1 years. The number of female adult-buffaloes and adult-cattle heads averaged 7.7 ± 6.81 and 7.4 ± 8.01 in SCSS, 10.4 ± 7.13 and 10.4 ± 6.77 in CSS and 17.5 ± 9.81 and 13.6 ± 6.76 in CLS. Average monthly earnings from milk sales from SCSS, CSS and CLS were 70,000, 92,000 and 334,916 Pakistani Rupees (PKR), respectively. There was a significant (P 90 % of all farms. Management practices like hair-clipping, hoof-trimming, udder-washing and teat-dipping were significantly (P

Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2022-10
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