Project Report on Cow Milk

A  dairy  is  a  place  for  handling  milk  and  milk  products. Technology refers to the application of scientific knowledge for practical  purposes.  Dairy technology has been defined  as  that branch  of dairy science which deals with the processing of  milk and the manufacture of milk products on an industrial scale. In developed dairying countries such as the U.S.A., the year 1850 is seen  as  the  dwiding  line  between  form  and  factory scale production.  Various factors contributed to this change in  these countries, viz concentration of population in cities where   jobs were plentiful, rapid industrialisation, improvement of transportation  facilities, development of machines etc,  whereas the  rural areas were identified for milk production,  the  urban centres were selected for the location of milk processing  plants and  product  manufacturing factories. These plants  and  factors were rapidly expanded and modernised  with improved machinery and equipment  to  secure  the  various  advantages of  large scale production. This heralded the advent of dairy technology in these countries. In India  dairying has been  practiced  as a rural cottage industry since the remote past.  Semi commercial dairying started  with  the  establishment of  military  dairy  farms and cooperative milk unions through out the country  towards the end of the Nineteenth century.  However market milk technology may be considered to have commenced in 1950, with the functioning of the Central  Dairy of Aarey milk colony, and milk product  technology in 1956 with the establishment of AMUL Dairy, Anand.