Operation Flood and dairy co-operatives emerged in India as the largest rural employment scheme, enabling the modernization of the dairy sector to a level from where it can take off to meet not only the country’s demand for milk and milk products but can also exploit global market opportunities. This study reviews the existing status of milk marketing and dairy co-operatives in India and provid...

Co-operatives play a vital role in supplying various goods and services the UK, as well other parts of world. In past twenty years co-operatives have become important players modern organic food supply chains, providing small-scale farmers with access to knowledge markets, alongside opportunities scale up their production. This teaching case is developed from qualitative interviews current form...

The needs of the Milk Producers’ Organization are achieved by strengthening scattered and poorly organized Indian milk producers, who lack access to resources services. In fact, has emerged as an interface between business environment individual producers through forward backward linkages, while facilitating strength collective action, bargaining power economies scale. It thus responded appropr...

OBJECTIVES To determine the frequency of resistance of Staphylococcus aureus to various antimicrobial agents, and the relationship between antimicrobial resistance of the isolates and carriage of plasmids. DESIGN A random sampling of milk and meat samples was carried out. SETTING Milk was collected from various dairy co-operative societies in Nairobi and Kiambu districts. Minced meat sample...

The study has addressed the issues associated with the alternative milk market chains and their implications on dairy farmers and traders. It has been conducted in Bihar, where modern milk market chains especially the milk co-operatives have grown significantly. The study has shown that in spite of growing presence of modern milk supply chains, the traditional milk supply chain is still dominan...

Most high γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) producers are Lactobacillus brevis of plant origin, which may be not able to ferment milk well due to its poor proteolytic nature as evidenced by the absence of genes encoding extracellular proteinases in its genome. In the present study, two glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) genes, gadA and gadB, were found in high GABA-producing L. brevis NPS-QW-145. Co-cu...