02988cas a2200397 a 4500 20260817162148.0 110920s1988 th uu|m rtt 0| a1eng d .b10067516 AIT Thesis no.AE-88-41 Wimalasuriya, Rukman K. Alternative options to change the livestock sub-system of the A. F. E. integrated farm, in order to generate a regular income Bangkok : Asian Institute of Technology, 1988 60 p. thesis ; no. AE-88-41 A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, School of Environment, Resources and Development Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1988 Introduction of a milk producing animal was suggested as a solution to improve the cash flow and the net returns from the livestock sub - system in the A. F. E. Integrated Crop/Livestock/Fish Farm. A demand-driven bio-economic simulation model of a one-cow herd has been developed to compare three animal types, native swamp buffalo, dual purpose river buffalo and cross- bred dairy cow. The herd structure was generated for ten years with some stochastic biological events, and the dry matter, metabolisable energy and digestible nitrogen inputs from pasture and rice straw has been input, to determine the needs of concentrate feed to achieve the biological potential of the herd. Considering the outputs of milk, meat and calves, a partial budgeting was done to compare the economics of the three animal types, replicating the experiment ten times. A complete economic analysis was also performed to see the economic feasibility of the three animal types reared for milk. The model has been validated, and the sensitivity for milk price and combination of milk price and concentrate cost, analysed. Dairy cow was the best, while milk production from the native buffalo was not at all profitable. Livestock Agricultural systems Peacock, Christabel P., Chairpeson Gartner, Joseph A., Examination Committee Waibel, Hermann, Examination Committee DAAD (German Government)., Scholarship Donor Asian Institute of Technology. thesis ; no. AE-88-41 Full-Text http://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B18945 .b10067516 mnait s 240409 2 951012 m a s 0 mnait mnarc 22 40 Barcode : 30050120581797 CREATED : 2014-10-02 RECORD # : i12760286 LPATRON : 0 LCHKIN : - # RENEWALS : 0 # OVERDUE : 0 IUSE3 : 0 TOT CHKOUT : 0 TOT RENEW : 0 Barcode : 30050120364947 CREATED : 2016-05-27 RECORD # : i12997146 LPATRON : 0 LCHKIN : - # RENEWALS : 0 # OVERDUE : 0 IUSE3 : 0 TOT CHKOUT : 0 TOT RENEW : 0 4095 4095 0 0 0 0 MAIN MAIN mnait 2026-08-17 50.00 0 AIT Thesis no.AE-88-41 30050120581797 2026-08-17 16:21:48 3 2026-08-17 22 0 0 0 0 MAIN MAIN mnarc 2026-08-17 0 AIT Thesis no.AE-88-41 30050120364947 2026-08-17 16:21:48 2026-08-17 40