Questions to be addressed

The specific questions to be addressed herein relate to milk production and are:

• What is the general level of milk offtake in the Bilisa and Assa locations and do mean milk offtakes differ between them?

• How does milk offtake vary with age of calf (in other words with month of lactation) and do the patterns differ between Bilisa and Assa locations?

• To what extent does milk offtake meet the needs of the household both in terms of human consumption and marketing?

We shall also evaluate the suitability of the study design in terms of both the questionnaire that was used and the quantitative milk recording component.

GenStat is used within the case study. The same analysis using R is demonstrated by Nagda (2009).