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The
Indian dairy sector is on a high, though there are many souring factors
that need to be tackled, explains Dilip Sarda
The
Indian dairy industry has immense potential to contribute to the national
economy, create employment, bolster trade and commerce and help in rural
reconstruction as well. As such, extensive R&D efforts need to be
carried out to develop new, cost-effective technologies for manufacturing
a variety of milk-based products. At the same time, product diversification
and by-product utilisation, also needs to be focused on, since it would
result in value added products and in turn, a better economy.
Indian dairy equipment facilities: A beginning
Pasteurisation was commercially introduced in India
60 years ago, when processing equipments were imported from Denmark,
Sweden and UK, through the Indian agents for foreign companies like
L&T, Vulcan - Laval or APV. Then came the implementation of 'Operation
Flood Programme' - launched in 1970 under the aegis of the National
Dairy Development Board (NDDB), under which several key equipments such
as separators, pumps, SS pipes and fittings, homogenisers, powder plant
along with plates for chillers and pasteurisers were imported. Besides,
SS sheets were also imported to help local fabricators manufacture various
equipments. The year 1995-96 saw the termination of operation Flood
III and during the same period, several dairy equipment companies of
national and international repute were established in the country. They
manufactured tanks, chillers, pasteurisers, bulk milk coolers, butter
churn, powder plants, automatic packing machines and other equipments.
Since then, several other developments have taken place in this sector.
Synergy Agro-Tech, in 1995, developed India’s first continuous
ice cream freezer with a capacity of 110 l/hr. Today, it is in a position
to supply complete ice cream plant including higher capacity 400 l/hr
continuous ice cream freezers. Despite this selfsufficiency, our country
needs to import or seek collaboration for some machines such as UHT
plants, aseptic packaging machines, reverse osmosis and continuous butter
making plant and high speed packaging machines for butter, cheese and
ice cream. Present growth prospects In India, most of the traditional
dairy products are processed by combination of continuous or batch operations.
There are number of institutions such as NDRI (Karnal), Continuous Picture
courtesy: Synergy
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