Keeping Milk Fresh — With Frogs [ Transfreez Mobile Refrigeration - India's Most Effective Cold Plate Refrigerated Trucks ]

Before modern refrigeration, people dropped frogs in their milk to preserve it. 

Long before modern refrigeration, people in Russia and Finland reportedly placed living Russian brown frogs in milk to keep it fresh.

It turns out the curious practice has a basis in science: Recent research on the amphibians’ skin secretions led by Moscow State University organic chemist A.T. Lebedev shows they’re loaded with peptides, antimicrobial compounds as potent against Salmonella and Staphylococcus bacteria as prescription antibiotics.

To your health!

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Source: Discover Magazine

Milk Supply May Not Meet Growing Indian Demand [ Transfreez Mobile Refrigeration - India's Most Effective Cold Plate Reefers ]

Very few growing up in the 1980s and 1990s might have ever imagined a looming milk shortage in India. This was mainly as a result of the success of the four decade old “Operation Flood” dairy development programme started by India’s National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in 1970. The success achieved by this programme enabled India to become the world’s largest producer of milk and milk products. A significant gap between milk demand and supply now seems to be a very real possibility, according to a new report released by IMARC Group.

Despite being the world’s largest producer, the dairy sector in India is by and large in the primitive stage of development and modernization. Though India may boast of a 200 million cattle population, the average output of an Indian cow is only one seventh of its American counterpart. Indian breeds of cows are considered inferior in terms of productivity. Moreover, the sector is plagued with various other impediments like shortage of fodder, its poor quality, dismal transportation facilities and a poorly developed cold chain infrastructure. As a result, the supply side lacks in elasticity that is expected of it.

According to an analyst at IMARC Group “Milk processing and dairy farming is not integrated in India. Milk production is mostly done by the local farmers and processing done by the cooperatives and private milk processing firms. Dairy farming and crop farming are complementary to each other with a significant part of the fodder for the cattle coming from the crops and a significant part of the manure for the crops coming from the cattle. As a result, agriculturists enjoy a significant advantage in dairy farming compared to non agriculturists. The procurement prices of milk (which in turn are driven by the retail prices), however, do not make dairy farming a very profitable business for farmers in the country”.

On the demand side, however, the report finds that the situation is buoyant. Rising incomes have led to a transition from cereals to milk, meat and vegetables. As a result, consumption of milk in India is expected to grow at around 5-6% in the next ten years, whereas, production in the same period is expected to grow at 3-4%. Estimates from the report suggest that by 2018, India will not be able to meet its domestic milk demand and will have to import milk from other countries.

IMARC’s new report titled “Dairy Industry in India: 2013-2019” provides an analytical and statistical insight into the Indian dairy industry along with its various segments and sub-segments. The study that has been undertaken using both desk-based and qualitative primary research has analyzed various aspects and provides a comprehensive understanding of the Indian dairy products market. The report can serve as an excellent guide for investors, researchers, consultants, marketing strategists, and all those who are planning to foray into the Indian dairy market in any form.

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Homemade thirst quenchers in summer [ Transfreez mobile refrigeration - India's most effective Cold Plate Reefers ]

Here's a guide to tasty thirst quenchers which cane be easily made at home.

Aam panna: All you need is two or three raw mangoes, jaggery and some free time to prepare aam panna. Of course, a dash of kesar to add that colour. Considered a soothing summer cooler, aam panna is easy to make and can be frozen for future use also.

Aam ras: Another summer cooler, aam ras is considered a summer must have. While every other dairy or juice outlet stocks up on some of the tasty aam ras you would love to gorge, the fun in making the aam ras at home while your children watch you make it is very different. It also is very easy to make and can be refrigerated.

Lemon juice: An evergreen beverage, lemon juice beats every other summer cooler with its simplicity quotient. The parching taste buds simply love the tangy taste of the lemon. It is fully loaded with Vitamin C too — the obvious benefits of a citric fruit.

Orange juice: Another citric variant, orange juice is sweet and tangy and is universally liked and appreciated like lemon. If fruit pulp interests you, the orange pulp can be retained in the juice, making it more nutritive and healthy.

Mango milkshake: Nourishing and thirst quenching, the mango milk shake is liked most by children. It makes for a great welcome drink at parties too during summers.

Watermelon juice: Another yummy thirst quencher which again is kids' favourite. Watermelon juice is healthy and also one of the favourite summer coolers of all times. It also requires less preparation time.

So, go ahead and pick some of the farm fresh summer fruits and indulge in some summer bonanza.

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Source: The Times of India

Organic dairy farming picks up in villages [Transfreez Mobile Refrigeration-India's Most Effective Cold Plate Reefers]

Phidde village in Ferozepur district is witnessing a small revolution of sorts in the field of dairy farming. Led by 60-year-old Gurbinder Singh Kang, youngsters in this and the surrounding villages are intoorganic dairy farming these days and are earning good returns.

Kang, who was a franchise holder of the Subway chain of restaurants in California (US), came back to India around two and a half years ago and set up this venture. His dairy farm has 160 cows kept in the "best conditions" for a good yield. While he manages the farm, his wife Hardev Kaur takes care of the packaging of the milk that is supplied to Ferozepur, Moga, Faridkot and Ludhiana.

4N+ is the brand name of the BAJ dairy farm being run by Kang. "4N+ stands for 'Novel, Natural, Nutritious and No-adulteration'," he explains. Kang says the milk produced at his farm is 100 per cent pure and the entire process is mechanised, untouched by human hands — from milking to packaging and even serving feed to the animals. The fertilisation of the animals happens through artificial insemination, and Kang brings semen from Sweden for the purpose.

"The high somatic cells in milk should not be more than 2.5 lakh per litre and after regular quality control this count for my farm's milk is 2.33 lakh per litre now," he claims.

Kang is an avid animal lover and takes good care of his cows. Huge fans with sprinklers can be seen in his farm for the comfort of the animals. When the animals fall sick, he prefers homoeopathy or naturopathy for their treatment and says antibiotics are his last resort. He believes light soothing music makes the cows feel good, which in turn helps in a better yield.

Kang has been encouraging youngsters to adopt this profession and till now 90 young boys and girls have started dairy farming. They have formed young farmers' dairy association. Kang helps them get loans and shares technical know-how. "I am giving them the semen I import for my dairy farm. They are also free to use the chilling equipment and testing lab that I have set up. I have an elaborate medicine centre for the animals, apart from regular doctors. I share these facilities too," he says.

Sarabjit Kaur, one of the women who have started dairy farming, says: "Boys in the villages often fall prey to drugs. So this is a good effort that they are busy in their jobs and are self dependent now."

The dairy farmers are making an average income of not less than Rs 10,000 per month.

Now that he has a well established market, Kang plans to sell milk products too.

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Source: Indian Express

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