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

Table 3.

Effect of Corona on farm income and economic loss of dominating dairy farms in Bangladesh. This table shows the estimation of the economic loss of the dairy farmer- and national-level loss

Farm profit Unit BD-2/19-WOC BD-14/19-WOC BD-2/20-WC BD-14/20-WC
Farm income USD/year 276.61 2668.63 − 400.69 992.92
Farm income to turnover % 0.18% 0.26% − 0.34% 0.11%
Net cash farm income USD/year 288.43 2810.46 − 388.88 1134.75
Decrease in farm income USD/month/farm - - 56.45 139.64
Total loss USD/day/farm - - 1.88 4.66
Total loss USD/day/cow 0.94 0.33
Total loss in BD USD in million/day - - 1.18 3.25
Grand total Million USD /day 4.43

Total dairy farmers in BD: 1.44 million of which (42% small farms—BD-2, and 48% large farms—BD-14)

Source: IFCN 2019 and IDRN 2019