QUALITATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF MARKET MILK COLLECTED FROM SOME SELECTED AREAS OF PANCHAGARH DISTRICT

Abstract

The experiment was conducted at BRAC Milk collection centre Atowari Panchagarh & Milk Collection centre of Milk Vita (BMPCUL) in Sadar Panchagarh. The experiment was conducted during the period of August, 2013 to March, 2014. To evaluate the quality of farmers milk, farm milk and also the market milk. The experiment was carried out some selected areas of Panchagarh district. This is situated on the northern part of Bangladesh. In this experiment milk samples were collected from different sources like Kazi and Kazi organic dairy farm, Kazi and Kazi cooperative dairy farm, local market and also the farmers house to evaluate the quality of milk. Some physical and chemical test were performed to evaluate the quality of milk. From the result of both experiments it was found that Kazi and Kazi organic dairy farm and Farmers house milk quality are almost same but in the Kazi and Kazi cooperative dairy farm and local market it was found that wide variations were found within different samples. On the basis of physical parameters like Organoleptic tests, Colour, Flavour, Taste, Specific gravity (Sp. gr.), CLR (corrected lactometer reading) it was found that milk produced at Kazi and Kazi organic dairy farm was superior to other milk samples. On the chemical parameters APT (Alcohol precipitation test), Acidity content Kazi and Kazi organic dairy farm was also superior. The Fat content, solid not Fat (SNF), Total solid content (TS) value was higher than the other milk samples.