Abstract

One area of concern in the agriculture sector is the generation of quality statistics on dairy animals and milk production. While planning and program development for the dairy industry are on stream, the present system of the Bureau of Agriculture Statistics for generating primary data and information on dairy appears inadequate. Hence, this study was aimed at developing a survey design for generating inventory of dairy animals and an estimation procedure for quantifying local fresh milk production. Phase I dealt on the assessment of the existing survey methodology (design and estimation, instruments, and problems and limitations of the Backyard and Commercial Livestock and Poultry Surveys) and on the development of an improved system for generating dairy statistics (updating of masterlist of dairy farms, scope and coverage, sampling methodology, estimation procedures, and standard concepts and definitions).