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. 2020 Nov 23;53(1):33. doi: 10.1007/s11250-020-02471-8

Table 1.

Effect of Corona on the economics of the dairy sector. This table describes the key variables of the typical farms which are affected by Corona. This table also showed the names of the farm with and without Corona along with the time frame

Variables 2019 2020
Without Corona (WOC) With Corona (WC)
Typical farm name BD-2/19-WOC BD-14/19-WOC BD-2/20-WC BD-14/20-WC
Herd size 2 14 2 14
Data reference 2019 2019 March 2020 March 2020
Milk yield (kg/cow/year) 945 1265 926 1227
Land base (ha/farm) 0.4 2.3 0.4 2.3
Labor
Family labor (LU) 0.38 1.38 0.38 1.38
Hired labor (LU) 0 0.48 0 0.48

LU, labor unit; 1 labor unit = 2100 working hours (IFCN 2019)