Business Management for Tropical Dairy Farmers

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Table of Contents

Foreword

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1. Introduction

pp. 1-10

2. What is Farm Business Management?

pp. 11-24

3. Smallholder dairy farming in Asia

pp. 25-42

4. Feed production technology on smallholder dairy farms

pp. 43-56

5. Improved herd management on smallholder dairy farms

pp. 57-72

6. The harvesting and marketing of milk from smallholder farms

pp. 73-84

7. The base price for raw milk

pp. 85-92

8. The importance of record keeping

pp. 93-102

9. Categorising farm costs and farm revenue

pp. 103-114

10. The key tools of farm business analyses

pp. 115-126

11. Measures of farm profit

pp. 127-138

12. Formulating profitable rations

pp. 139-148

13. Feeding decisions driving profit

pp. 149-156

14. Key performance measures of farm profitability

pp. 157-172

15. Budgeting for future farm development

pp. 173-184

16. Risk in tropical dairy farming

pp. 185-194

17. Case studies of profitable tropical dairy farming systems

pp. 195-204

18. Planning and conducting workshops in Farm Business Management

pp. 205-216

19. The future for smallholder dairy industries in tropical Asia

pp. 217-233

Indonesian dairy smallholder pamphlet

pp. 236-239

Appendices

pp. 240-262

Glossary and abbreviations

pp. 263-274

Index

pp. 275-278

References and further reading

pp. 279-280