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A few years back the old families could maintain more than one animals. But when they split into nuclearfamilies the farmer couldn't control more and they have to pay for labourers for additional work. In this contextthe increased wage plays a major role in the decreasing cattle population.From Table (7) with base year as 1993-94, it could be observed that the feed price was increased 310.11percent and wage 645.04 percent where as the milk price to 274.36 percentTable 7. Index numbers of milk price, feed price, milk production and wageRESEARCH ARTICLETable 8. The Correlation between the variablesTable (8) shows the correlation between different variables influencing milk production. The highcorrelation between indigenous population and the total cattles and negative correlation between milk productionand total cattles in Table (8) reveals the paradox between decreasing cattle population and increasing milkproduction. This is due to the selling of low yielding indigenous cows and increased productivity with crossbred.JIVA Vol. 10 Issue 1 April 201221