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World Milk Day Celebrations – 2014 held @ Mannuthy and Pookode

                  The College of Dairy Science and Technology Mannuthy in association with COHEART, KVASU and Indian Dairy Association (Kerala Chapter) celebrated this year’s World Milk Day on 1st of June with pomp and valor. The programme was arranged at the Veterinary College auditorium, Mannuthy. The day started off with an inaugural ceremony at 9:30 a.m. Dr. P.I. Geevarghese, Dean, CDST Mannuthy welcomed the gathering. The celebrations were inaugurated by Dr. P.K. Jayasree, Dy. Collector, Thrissur who in the inaugural speech stressed the growing relevance of setting apart a day exclusively as ‘World Milk Day’ every year for creating awareness among general public about the importance of milk and milk products. She also congratulated the organizers in arranging such a beautiful and relevant gathering on this day. Dr. R. Rajendra Kumar, Former Dean CDST delivered the presidential address Dr. S. Ramkumar, Director of Entrepreneurship-KVASU inaugurated the milk quality awareness program for the milk consumers. Felicitations were offered by Dr. P. Sudheer Babu, Head-KVASU Dairy Plant, Dr. S.N. Rajakumar, Head – Dept. of Dairy Technology, CDST and Dr. K.A. Mercey, Head - Dept. of Dairy Business Management, CDST. Dr. M.P. Divya, Academic Consultant, Dept. of Dairy Chemistry extended vote of thanks. The inaugural ceremony came to a close by 11:30 a.m.

                  The inaugural session was followed by a technical seminar session. The first seminar was on the topic “Milk Quality – A Consumer Perspective” handled by Dr. Ligimol James, Academic Consultant, Dept. of Dairy Microbiology, CDST. The second seminar was on the topic “Present status and scope of B.Tech (DSc. & Tech.) programme” led by Sri. G.R. Jayadevan, Academic Consultant, Dept. of Dairy Business Management, CDST. A practical session on milk sample testing led by Sri. Adarsh C., Teaching Assistant was also arranged at the Dairy Chemistry laboratory. Smt. Archana Chandran, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Dairy Microbiology extended vote of thanks for the Seminar session. 

World Milk day celebrated @Pookode Campus

                       In connection with the World Milk Day observance, COHEART centre of KVASU organized a one day training programme on “Hygienic handling and processing of milk” for chilling plant workers of Pulpally Milk society, Pulpally. A class on clean milk production was also conducted for dairy farmers. About 60 farmers attended the programme. The programme was inaugurated by Sri.N.K.Gopalan, President Pulpally KsheeraSahakaranaSangham and was presided over by SriM.P.Sudheesh, Diary development officer, SulthanBathery.Technical session was handled by Dr.V.K.Vinod and Dr.Ebin Mathew.