Fluid milk consumption behaviour of urban households: Evidence from Mymensingh city, Bangladesh

• Main Authors: Shirin Akter, Md. Salauddin Palash, G M Monirul Alam
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bangladesh Agricultural University Research System 2020-06-01
• Series: Journal of the Bangladesh Agricultural University
• Subjects: urban consumer; branded and unbranded milk; consumer choice; determinants
• Online Access: http://www.ejmanager.com/fulltextpdf.php?mno=96071

Understanding consumers behavior is an important factor for the expansion of a business. A better understanding of the factors that influence consumption behavior of consumer can help marketers to undertake better marketing strategies and predict how consumers would respond to those marketing strategies. This study was undertaken to examine urban consumer behavior towards fluid milk consumption in Mymensingh city using primary data of 60 respondents through purposive sampling method in August 2018. Three types of milk were considered from branded fluid milk such as UHT, chocolate and pasteurized fluid milk, and raw fluid milk as unbranded milk. The results revealed that about 33 percent of the respondents consumed branded milk, 36 percent consumed unbranded milk and 30 percent consumed both branded and unbranded milk. The results of the logit model indicated that probability of purchasing branded milk were positively related to awareness of advertisement, expenditure on fluid milk and quality of branded fluid milk, whereas, negatively related to agricultural occupation and accessibility to cow milk. Consumers used various types of milk for the preparation of sweetmeats, beverages, yoghurt, ghee and drinks. However, a smaller proportion of milk was used for ghee preparation and a larger proportion of milk was used as drinks. In regards of attitude, most of the consumer responded that they did not think about the brand name in the time of emergency. Availability of branded fluid milk was important for them. Advertisements were found to have great impact on the consumer to choose branded fluid milk. Marketers need to take into account the choice, taste, attitude of the consumers properly in order to make their business successful. [J Bangladesh Agril Univ 2020; 18(2.000): 0-0]