Growth performance of milk and fish production in Bihar

Abstract

This study is based on the secondary data collected from Department of Animal Husbandry, Government of Bihar and Department of Fishing, Government of Bihar, Patna. The growth rate of milk production from 2001-02 to 2016-17 and the growth rate of fish production from 2000-01 to 2016-17 were estimated by linear equation. The growth rate of milk production was about 7.00% per annum as compound rate while in the case of fish production it was higher than milk production being 7.55% per annum as compound rate. The projection of milk production and fish production by 2025 is also estimated for the state on the basis of production of milk and production of fish over periods and by 2025 the state would be able to produce nearby 1.19 crore tones and about 6.30 lakh tones of milk production and fish production respectively, in the state.