executive summary - National Dairy Research Institute

Executive Summary
• The Institute hosted as many as 30 no. training • Entrepreneurship development campaign was
programmes/workshops/seminars and symposia launched for transferring some of the technologies
to promote scientific and academic interactions that were developed in the field of composite dairy
and exchange of new knowledge.
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foods, One Self Help Group (SHG) namely Nirmal
Dhara Mahila Dugdh Samiti was formed in village
Taprana and the women members of the SHG were
• The pricing was finalized for initiating trained for the manufacture of quality dairy
commercialization of the technologies viz. products. Training was also given on testing of
Functional processed cheese spread, buffalo-milk milk and milk products. Women belonging to SHG
feta cheese, functional quarg cheese, dietetic misti named as Shagun Bakery, Darad were trained for
dahi, buffalo-milk set plain dahi, buffalo-milk set the manufacture of bakery products such as
plain yoghurt, cow-milk set plain yoghurt, cow- biscuits, bread, buns, cakes and muffins.
milk set plain dahi, extended shelf-life functional
• The Innovative Approach initiated by NDRI;
paneer, long-life milk cake, low-fat gulab jamun
“Dairy Education at Farmers' Door”, continued in
mix and Arjun herbal ghee.
year 2012-13. Under this programme, a team of
• A new test for detergent detection for milk was NDRI scientists including subject matter
evaluated at Punjab Biotechnology Incubator, specialists from production, processing and
Mohali and Mother Dairy, Delhi. The Mother management group organizes Dairy Education at
Dairy purchased the technology for license fee
nd
Farmers' Door in various villages on 2 saturday of
amounting to ` 6.00 Lakhs.
every month.
• Two probiotic cultures Viz., Lactobacilus • KVK and DTC organized 272 training
acidophilus (LaVK2) and Bifidobacterium programmes (both on campus and off campus) on
bifidum (BbVK3) were submitted at MTCC, different aspects of dairying and allied fields of
IMTECH, Chandigarh as a part of requirement for agriculture such as crop production, horticulture,
the grant of patent on Probiotic Dahi.
bee keeping and fisheries apart from home science
•
for the benefit of 8969 farmers, farm women, rural
NDRI-Industry Meet was held on December 1,
youth and entrepreneurs across the country.
2012. At this Meet, 34 technologies developed at
NDRI were presented before 42 participants from • During 2012-13, 25375 farmers from 16 states and
32 Industrial houses and stakeholders with a focus one union territory visited ATIC, which also
for their commercialization. These technologies included 216 delegates from 9 different countries.
included detection tests for detergent, antibiotic To improve health and productivity of dairy
residues, Listeria monocytogenes, Enterococci animals, different technological interventions in
and aflatoxin M1 in milk. The technologies of the area of nutrition, breeding, physiology and
cheese spread, Feta cheese, Quarg cheese, Misti health care were suggested to 23375 farmers
dahi, cow plain dahi, cow plain yoghurt, buffalo whereas 6478 stakeholders were suggested
plain yoghurt, buffalo plain dahi, herbal ghee, different technological interventions in the area of
long-life milk-cake, low-fat gulab-jamun, livestock production management and milk
functional milk drink, iron-fortified biscuits, processing and 1162 cases were referred for
reconstituted kheer, reconstituted rasmalai, specialized guidance to different divisions of the
reconstituted basundi, extended shelf-life of Institute and 2322 cases to sister institutes located
paneer, cereal based fermented beverages, whey at Karnal.
based beverages and soups, anionic feed diet for • Forty three women empowerment trainings and
controlling milk fever, milk protein based bajra campaigns in the field of dairying and homesnacks,
whey-skim milk-millet based science were organized with the objective to create
complementary food, continuous butter melter, awareness and impart skill in these areas and also
continuous ghee making machine, supplements to mobilize farmwomen to take up vocation in the
mixtures, mineral mixture and degcure mixture field of dairying for generating income from
were explained/demonstrated.
dairying.
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