The Indian economy is predominantly dependent upon Agriculture and the live stock sector contributes substantially in enhancing the income, National security, employment and even reducing the incidents of poverty amongst the rural population. The development of Dairy Science and the Dairy Scenario progressing into a viable industry since 1920, and continues the evolutionary progress should also keep pace with or even anticipate the changing conditions of the industry. Immense wealth of knowledge has been accumulated and the dairying has developed in leaps and bounds and we can conclude today that milk is delicately balanced bio-chemical fluid. The Veterinary Council of India, New Delhi has formulated and introduced a uniform syllabus and felt an urgent need for a common co-ordinated program me with a view to maintain the standards in Vet. Education throughout the country leading to BVSc and AH degree.The purpose of this text book is a sincere venture and effort to provide the basic fundamentals in a compact, simple, varied, and vivid picture of Milk and Milk products Technology comprehensively in a concise manner covering all the aspects . The sole objective of this book is aimed to help the Vet. Students; it is also beneficial to the students of Dairy Technology, Food Technology and even to the Dairy Industry as well. The text book apart from providing the basic information on the Dairy Scenario, Milk and its composition, properties, legal standards, nutritional importance, different dairy processes, technology of preparing various milk products, the microbiology of milk, quality control of milk and milk products themselves have a good buffering capacity. Thus maintaining a standard throughout the text book, necessary information has been provided lucidly in a comprehensive manner in the form of tables, flow diagrams thus enabling the authors to provide the vast accumulated data in the subject of dairying with a clarity and simplicity. Efforts have also been made by the authors to provide a practical manual to the benefit of the students and teachers in order to maintain the uniform standards
