RESEARCH ON THE BREAKEVEN POINT IN MILK AND MEAT PRODUCTION AT RUMINANTS

Rod­i­ca CHETROIU¹, Vili DRAGOMIR²
RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE ECONOMY AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT^1,2
Cor­re­spond­ing author e‑mail: rodica.chetroiu @ iceadr.ro
Abstract: Prof­itabil­i­ty in ani­mal pro­duc­tion is at the fore­front of approach­es and activ­i­ties con­ti­nu­ity, and the breakeven point, or equi­lib­ri­um point from which prof­it gen­er­a­tion begins, must be reached in the short­est pos­si­ble time. In the present paper, the breakeven point is ana­lyzed for cow’s, sheep­’s, goat’s and buf­falo’s milk, as well as for beef and sheep meat. The study is based on a total of 197 case stud­ies con­duct­ed in rumi­nant farms of the afore­men­tioned species, with aver­age data for 3 con­sec­u­tive years: 2017–2019, or 2018–2020. It turned out that the breakeven point syn­the­sizes in its struc­ture the lev­els of impor­tant tech­ni­cal-eco­nom­ic indi­ca­tors of the activ­i­ty, such as: the lev­el of pro­duc­tion and its cap­i­tal­iza­tion price, which give the val­ue of pro­duc­tion, as well as vari­able and fixed costs. Thus, for the thresh­old of prof­itabil­i­ty in phys­i­cal expres­sion, the fol­low­ing aver­age val­ues ​​were high­light­ed: for cow’s milk 5,506.3 l / head, for beef 378.1 kg / head, for buf­fa­lo milk 801 l / head, for  sheep milk 153.4 l / head, for sheep meat 17.9 kg / head, for goat’s milk 216.1 l / head.
Key­words: breakeven point, pro­duc­tion, milk, meat, costs
JEL Clas­si­fi­ca­tion: Q01, Q12, Q13