Most of the poor people in developing countries live in rural areas. Experience shows that in manycountries animal husbandry development and increasing investment specially is a way to challengethe poverty in rural areas. This is obvious that, small producers have key role in dairy markets anddairy development but they have no power to bargain and negotiate for higher prices, access to themarke...

The economical profitability of the dairy industry is based on the quality of the bulk milk collected in the farms, therefore it was based on the herd level rather than on the individual animals at real time. Udder infection and stage of lactation are directly related to the quality of milk produced on the herd level. However, improvement of milk quality requires testing each animal's milk sepa...

BACKGROUND The quality of dairy products, raw milk in particular, depends on many factors. Low bacterial and somatic cell counts are basic determinants of the appropriate raw milk quality. The objective of the work was to assess the effect of selected factors, that is, the age of cows and their daily milk performance, on cytological quality (somatic cell count) and energy value of milk produced...

A variety of diagnostic tests are routinely used to evaluate milk quality on dairy farms. Tests such as bulk milk bacterial counts, bulk tank somatic cell count and tests for adulterants such as water, sediment or antibiotics are routinely used by regulatory agencies. Other tests such as individual cow somatic cell count values, Staphylococcus aureus milk antibody tests, the California Mastitis...

assessing the effects of monensin on economic factors of milk (percents of protein and fat), and quality of milk fat during early lactation. thirteen multiparous holstein cows were blocked into a control and a treatment group from 3 weeks prepartum to 45 days postpartum according the number of their calving. the groups received similar diets. the treatment group received monensin added to grain...

5 INTroDuCTIoN Global markets have been critically important to Irish agriculture for some years. In these, but also in domestic markets, competition will intensify as a result of ongoing moves towards liberalisation of international trade. In this setting, Irish agricultural product cannot hope to compete on price alone, and quality will become increasingly important to Ireland’s ability to su...

Milk is often described as a complete food because it contains protein, sugar, fat, vitamins, and minerals. This study was performed to investigate risk factors affecting chemical and bacteriological quality of bulk tank milk. According to the following conducted experiments, the milk was divided into two standard and non-standard groups. Then, effect of risk factors on making the samples non-s...

-The conservation of milk is of major concern in developing countries like India, due to the lack of supply at many household in rural and Industrial areas. In existing system a collection vehicle is assigned for each group of areas. If the vehicle fails to arrive at a particular destination at correct time the milk gets spoiled and becomes useless. The proposed method eliminates this drawback ...

Raw milk is a valuable food which its quality is important regarding both milk consumption itself and manufacturing of other dairy products. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of different seasons on the variations of raw milk composition. To do so different samples of raw milk were taken during summer and winter from Qazvin province and their physicochemical properties includi...