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Milk Products
In the promotion of organic farming, while animal husbandry has been an integral part of farm level operations, the value chain management of milk has not been simple. In the first place, the scale of operations has not been enough to suit the available size of equipments. Generally under conventional milk value chain management, the scale of operations have grown so large that for small size scale of operations, the modern processing technology and equipments are just not available, the traditional methods of processing do not qualify for quality certification. We are therefore faced with the big challenge to establish the processing facilities, despite having sufficiently large volume of organic milk production at farm level in many of our project areas.
As of today, the adulteration in fresh milk has become a big consumer concern in the market. Attempts are being made to first sell fresh milk. Also decentralized production of Clarified Butter (Ghee) has also been established. Regularly large quantities are being processed. Efforts have also been made to distinguish the milk value chain for milk from Cows and Buffalos.
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