The Efficacy of the Mazzican for milking, transportation and improving bacteriological quality of milk in the smallholder dairy value chain in Tanzania

Milk handling and equipments used have a profound influence on the bacteriological quality of milk. In smallholder milk production systems plastic jerry cans are commonly used and compromise the milk quality. The study was conducted in August and September 2016 to assess the Efficacy of the Mazzican...

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Autores principales: Kurwijila, Lusato R., Mboya, N., Laizer, M., Omore, Amos O.
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/106368
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author Kurwijila, Lusato R.
Mboya, N.
Laizer, M.
Omore, Amos O.
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Laizer, M.
Mboya, N.
Omore, Amos O.
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Omore, Amos O.
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description Milk handling and equipments used have a profound influence on the bacteriological quality of milk. In smallholder milk production systems plastic jerry cans are commonly used and compromise the milk quality. The study was conducted in August and September 2016 to assess the Efficacy of the Mazzican for Milking, Transportation and Improving Bacteriological Quality of Milk in the Smallholder Dairy Value Chain in Tanzania. A total of 38 jerry cans and 45 Meziccan milk samples were taken from farmers who sell their milk to the identified traders. Milk samples from the 14 farmers were collected for two weeks each before (Jerry cans) and after being provided with Mazzicans. During the preliminary period milk samples were taken directly from jerry cans and farmers were asked to report observed cases of cows with signs of abnormal milk. A higher total plate count was observed in milk samples taken from the smallholder dairy farmers’ jerry cans (1.19 x 106 cfu/ml) than traditional pastoralists jerry cans (4 x 105 cfu/ml), and Mazzican for smallholder farmer (3.6 x 105 cfu/ml). A similar trend was observed when farmers used Mazzicans. This implies that traditional farmers in the study areas generally produced milk of better bacteriological quality than smallholder dairy farmers. There was a 76.3% reduction in the TPC of raw milk from the pastoralist farmers as a result of switching to the use of Mazzicans. The improvement in the total plate count of milk was lower (69.5%) among the smallholder farmers but much less (42.3%) with respect to TCC/ml. It is concluded that use of food grade vessels such as Mazzican is more appropriate for hygienic handling of milk.
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spelling CGSpace1063682023-02-15T10:22:31Z The Efficacy of the Mazzican for milking, transportation and improving bacteriological quality of milk in the smallholder dairy value chain in Tanzania Kurwijila, Lusato R. Mboya, N. Laizer, M. Omore, Amos O. animal products dairying livestock value chains Milk handling and equipments used have a profound influence on the bacteriological quality of milk. In smallholder milk production systems plastic jerry cans are commonly used and compromise the milk quality. The study was conducted in August and September 2016 to assess the Efficacy of the Mazzican for Milking, Transportation and Improving Bacteriological Quality of Milk in the Smallholder Dairy Value Chain in Tanzania. A total of 38 jerry cans and 45 Meziccan milk samples were taken from farmers who sell their milk to the identified traders. Milk samples from the 14 farmers were collected for two weeks each before (Jerry cans) and after being provided with Mazzicans. During the preliminary period milk samples were taken directly from jerry cans and farmers were asked to report observed cases of cows with signs of abnormal milk. A higher total plate count was observed in milk samples taken from the smallholder dairy farmers’ jerry cans (1.19 x 106 cfu/ml) than traditional pastoralists jerry cans (4 x 105 cfu/ml), and Mazzican for smallholder farmer (3.6 x 105 cfu/ml). A similar trend was observed when farmers used Mazzicans. This implies that traditional farmers in the study areas generally produced milk of better bacteriological quality than smallholder dairy farmers. There was a 76.3% reduction in the TPC of raw milk from the pastoralist farmers as a result of switching to the use of Mazzicans. The improvement in the total plate count of milk was lower (69.5%) among the smallholder farmers but much less (42.3%) with respect to TCC/ml. It is concluded that use of food grade vessels such as Mazzican is more appropriate for hygienic handling of milk. 2019-08-02 2020-01-03T11:10:12Z 2020-01-03T11:10:12Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/106368 en Limited Access Kurwijila, R.L., Mboya, N., Laizer, M. and Omore, A. 2019. The Efficacy of the Mazzican for milking, transportation and improving bacteriological quality of milk in the smallholder dairy value chain in Tanzania. Paper presented at the Seventh All Africa conference on Animal Agriculture, Accra, Ghana, 29 July-2 August 2019.
spellingShingle animal products
dairying
livestock
value chains
Kurwijila, Lusato R.
Mboya, N.
Laizer, M.
Omore, Amos O.
The Efficacy of the Mazzican for milking, transportation and improving bacteriological quality of milk in the smallholder dairy value chain in Tanzania
title The Efficacy of the Mazzican for milking, transportation and improving bacteriological quality of milk in the smallholder dairy value chain in Tanzania
title_full The Efficacy of the Mazzican for milking, transportation and improving bacteriological quality of milk in the smallholder dairy value chain in Tanzania
title_fullStr The Efficacy of the Mazzican for milking, transportation and improving bacteriological quality of milk in the smallholder dairy value chain in Tanzania
title_full_unstemmed The Efficacy of the Mazzican for milking, transportation and improving bacteriological quality of milk in the smallholder dairy value chain in Tanzania
title_short The Efficacy of the Mazzican for milking, transportation and improving bacteriological quality of milk in the smallholder dairy value chain in Tanzania
title_sort efficacy of the mazzican for milking transportation and improving bacteriological quality of milk in the smallholder dairy value chain in tanzania
topic animal products
dairying
livestock
value chains
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/106368
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