supply of these products, through the milk producers cooperatives organised under the Operation Flood Programme in India …, would make a substantial contribution to Indian dairy farmers towards increasing the efficiency of milk production. Based on …

China’s melamine milk adulteration crisis highlights the challenges that arise as large well-capitalized companies … procure raw materials from a diffused supply chain of scattered small farmers and milk collection stations. As milk prices … climbed sharply in 2007 and companies branched out into new territories, intense competition for raw milk supplies …

The analysis of the 2009 Uganda National panel Survey (UNPS) collected by the UBoS shows that milk production from … smallholder farm units was 1 billion litres, and about 52 percent (524 million litres) joined the second level of the milk value … chain – and of which 72 percent was marketed in unprocessed form to consumers. High informality in milk marketing can be …

The most widely used measure of milk hygiene is Somatic Cell Count (SCC), where low SCC values indicate more wholesome … milk. Dirt, often associated with grazing, carry bacteria and these bacteria can cause mastitis. Milk from cows with … mastitis generally has higher SCC levels and cows with mastitis are most readily treated with antibiotics. Milk with high SCC …

The research analyzes the price transmission among the Costa Rican markets of cattle, beef and milk, accounting for … the behaviour expected. Cattle prices adjust in the milk - cattle relationship, beef meat prices adjust in the cattle … - beef meat relation and in the milk - beef meat relation. This finding supports the statement regarding the leading position …

Senegalese consumers prefer milk-based dairy products that are local and fresh to ones produced with imported powder …. However, prices for fresh-milk-based and powder-based products are not significantly different. I address this puzzle by first … positive premium for fresh local products. I then identify price determinants using a unique dataset of milk product …

This paper estimates the political oligopoly power of domestic raw-milk producers in the Korean dairy market. Domestic … raw-milk price for fluid use is decided exogenously by the government. The government announces the reference price of raw-milk … price for fluid use to protect the domestic raw-milk producers from the potential market power of domestic dairy processors …