This PSEB 9th Class Agriculture Notes Chapter 7 Milk Products and their Marketing will help you in revision during exams.
PSEB 9th Class Agriculture Notes Chapter 7 Milk Products and their Marketing
→ Milk is a boon to mankind. Milk is ideal and unique food for mankind.
→ Milk has high nutritive value like protein, calcium for bones, and other minerals.
→ Co-operative institutes play important role in the marketing of milk.
→ Cow milk should have at least 4% of fat in it and the value of solid-not-fat (S.N.F.) is 8.5%.
→ Buffalo milk should have 6% of fat and the value of solid not-fat (S.N.F.) should be 9%.
→ Types of milk are-Toned milk, double-toned milk, and standardized milk.
→ Raw milk can spoil easily. Therefore, milk can be processed and preserved for a long time by preparing different milk products.
→ We can earn more profit by preparing different milk products.
→ Milk products are Khoa, Paneer (Cheese), Ghee, Dahi (curd), etc.
→ We can get 200 grams of Khoa and 180 grams of Paneer from one-kilogram cow milk.
→ We can get 250 grams of Khoa and 250 grams of Paneer from one kg buffalo milk.
→ One can get information from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, and National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal (Haryana) on the preparation of milk products by adopting the latest technology.