A major percentage of India’s population stays in rural India and is engaged in agriculture and dairy farming. But, the size of the farm held by a majority of these dairy farmers is small, and the number of animals that they rear for dairy are very few. This marginal holding of land and cattle has led to unprofitable and unattractive prospects of dairy farming, as the contribution from the same is meagre. However, the income generated and the return from the dairy farm is dependent upon multiple input and output factors. The current study is an attempt to examine the contribution of dairy income to total income, and the impact of various inputs on the returns from the dairy farm.