Clean Milk Production: A Guide For Farmer

A significant role in national economy and socio-economic development of the country is played by dairy industry. This industry is an important source of employment in country especially in the rural India. One of the major challenges of this industry is to increase the milk production in order to meet the needs and wants of the growing population because milk, which is a complete food is also a key element in household security. Moreover, milk is the basic needed item of many dairy products like curd, ghee, ice-cream, lassi etc. Under such conditions, the maintenance of high-quality milk production under hygienic conditions at farms generally located in rural places in India and then bringing it hygienically to milk plants is a super challenging job. Clean milk is generally defined as “milk drawn from the udder of healthy animals, which is collected in clean dry milking pails and free from extraneous matters like dust, dirt, flies, hay, manure etc. Clean milk has a normal composition, possess a natural milk flavor with low bacterial count and is safe for human consumption”. Quality of milk is not an option but an obligation and thus ‘quality of milk’ has been placed superior to the ‘quantity of milk’.

There are some strategies for clean milk production can be: -