Determination of Profitability and Optimal Input Consumption in Industrial Milk Production Enterprises: A Case Study of Kenebist Animal Husbandry Unit Managed by Astan-e Qods-e Razavi

Known as one of the most important protein nutrients, milk plays a key role in food security. In addition, it has always been focused as an employment-generating product, so that the milk production is currently assumed a main activity in agriculture sector. This study reviews productivity index of dairy cow and determines extents of optimal input uses in Kenebist industrial animal husbandry unit. According to the results, this unit shows a productivity rate of 1.40 for each dairy cow, indicating a high level of productivity. Furthermore, having estimated a function of the milk production, it was consequently realized that alfalfa, silage corn, pulp sugar beet, grain corn, and barley are placed in second area (economic area of production), molasses in first area (non-economic area) of production, and bran consumption, as well as the number of existing dairy cows in the unit in third (non-economic) area.