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5th Lecture Introduction To Dairy Industry in SL

The document provides an overview of the dairy industry in Sri Lanka, including milk production and consumption, processing, and the milk value chain. It describes how dairy farmers sell milk to Milco, the largest milk collection and marketing company, through collecting centers. Milco then transports, processes, and markets the milk and dairy products. The dairy processing involves steps like cooling, standardization, pasteurization, and packaging into final products.

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5th Lecture Introduction To Dairy Industry in SL

The document provides an overview of the dairy industry in Sri Lanka, including milk production and consumption, processing, and the milk value chain. It describes how dairy farmers sell milk to Milco, the largest milk collection and marketing company, through collecting centers. Milco then transports, processes, and markets the milk and dairy products. The dairy processing involves steps like cooling, standardization, pasteurization, and packaging into final products.

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Syllabus outline

• Introduction to dairy industry in Sri Lanka


• - Describe the production and consumption of
milk in Sri Lanka
• - Describe the dairy processing industry in Sri
Lanka
Importance of dairy industry

• Milk and dairy products rank as the largest


single source of income to the farmers of many
countries in the world
Milk value chain in Sri Lanka
• Sri Lanka is having a well organized milk collecting
and marketing network
• Dairy farmers sell their milk as
– Individually – privet consumer, hotels and canteens, privet
processor (Nestle)
MILCO is the pioneer company and they purchase 40% of
domestic produce through collecting centers by FMs.
The institution was established in 1956 as “National Milk
Board”
In 1986 converted to MILCO under a world bank project
1998 converted to “Kiriya”
2000 taken back by the government and named MILCO (pvt)
Ltd
• Now MILCO involves in dairy development,
milk collection, milk processing and marketing
as a 100% government own company.
• MILCO has well established milk collecting
network which consist of
– 72 milk collecting centers
– 1700 farmer managed societies
Receiving of raw milk
Farmer

Milk collecting centers

Ice bank Chilling centers


Chilling
Processing factories
Ice bank chilling
• Cooling is done until bowsers arrive
• Cooled milk 3-4C
• Then milk is dispatch to the bowsers under 4C
• During unloading at processing factory they are
checked for
– Manhole seal
– Center code number
– Impurities present in milk
– Leakages from valves
– Temperature of the milk
Processing units in dairy industry
Product processing
Milk processing Sterilization
Milk reception standerization concentration
Cooling seperation Drying
Transportation Pasteurisation Fermentation
Testing & Homogenisation coagulation
measuring Storing Ghee,butter
processing
Storing Deaeration Freezing
Packing
Cont;

• Foremilk - milk at start of milking the


relatively low-fat milk with a high sugar
content that is produced at the beginning of a
breast feed.
• Hind milk - the milk produced after foremilk
during milking, which is rich in fat content and
high in calories.

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