Publisher's Synopsis
Dairy industry is the sector with the highest degree of protection due to the economically vulnerable position of small milk producers. Milk also known as white gold can be used to make an enormous variety of high quality products. The high cost of milk as a raw material has necessitated a high-tech processing industry. Billions of people around the world consume milk and dairy products every day. Not only are milk and dairy products a vital source of nutrition for these people, they also present livelihoods opportunities for farmers, processors, shopkeepers and other stakeholders in the dairy value chain. But to achieve this, consumers, industry and governments need up-to-date information on how milk and dairy products can contribute to human nutrition and how dairying and dairy-industry development can best contribute to increasing food security and alleviating poverty. The special nature of milk (perishable and bulky) leads to the necessity of strict and comprehensive quality regulation and to high transport costs. The large dependence of milk producers on the dairy processing industry has resulted in a strong position held by the co-operatives in milk marketing and in the processing industry. Milk research in present days gained high importance because of its health's effects in both the ways. This Book contributes immensely to advance knowledge in this field by covering vast areas of cell biology and endocrinology of lactation; animal husbandry, milk production, composition, preservation, processing and separation; biotechnology and food science. Advances in Dairy Research deals with Dairy and animal breeding, Physiology, Cell biology and endocrinology of lactation, animal science, milk production and composition, Biotechnology and food technology, properties of milk proteins, dairy products and relevant studies in bacteriology, enzymology and immunology, the use of milk products in other foods, and the development of methods related to Dairy Science. There is a need, therefore, to differentiate and describe in detail the various types of dairy production and marketing systems that exist within the agriculture sector so that research, recommendations and technical assistances are tailored to the specific needs of the farmers in each production systems.
