MANAGEMENT OF MILK TRANSPORTATION A STUDY CONDUCTED IN CENTRAL JAVA, INDONESIA



Bugi Rustamadji(1*), Ahmadi Ahmadi(2), Kustono Kustono(3), Timan Soetamo(4)

(1) Departement of Animal Production, Faculty of Animal Husbandry, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
(2) Departement of Animal Production, Faculty of Animal Husbandry, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
(3) Departement of Animal Production, Faculty of Animal Husbandry, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
(4) Departement of Animal Production, Faculty of Animal Husbandry, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract


Milk produced by small dairy farmers (member of dairy cooperatives) was affected by non-and technical factors. Technical factors were feeding, breeding and management, while non-technical factors possibly might be the institution or persons in charge, facilities, or equipment. Route of milk from milk producer to plant as follows: small dairy farmers —> milk collecting point —> cooling unit (owned by dairy cooperative) —> milk plant. This study was conducted in I997 by analyzing milk quality (in tenn of specific gravity, fat, solid non fat SNF, total solid TS and bacterial counts). Milk samples were taken from I12 small dairy farmers.
They were members of dairy cooperatives of Warga Mulya (WM), Kaliurang (KU). Pesat (PT), Puspetasari (PPT), Jatinom (JTN), and Cepogo (CPG). Results of milk quality were surprising because milk quality was taken directly from dairy farmers better compared to milk in the milk plant. This study concluded that there was tremendous decrease in milk quality particularly number ofbacterial counts in milk after reaching the milk plant. Those decrease might be due to (1) lack of equipment or facilities that managed by milk collecting point (MCP) or dairy
cooperatives (DC), (2) transportation duration or (3) lack of skilled man power who have to work quickly and professionally both in MCP or DC.


Keywords


Milk quality, Milk bacterial counts, Small dairy famers

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