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Nishant Sachdeva
L-2010-A-03-B.tech FT
Industrial Training
The Ludhiana District Co-operative Milk
Producer's Union Ltd.
Introduction
First Milk Plant, of the State was setup at Verka near Amritsar.
The brand name of Milk and Milk Products was adopted as
Verka.
The Foundation stone of Milk Plant, Ludhiana was laid by Hon.
S. Parkash Singh Badal, the then Chief Minister of Punjab in
1970.
Commissioning of the Plant was done by Punjab Dairy
Development Corporation in 1974.
Inauguration was done by Late Smt. Indira Gandhi the Prime
Minister of India.
The capacity of the plant was 1.00 lac. Litre per day, and now
the milk handling capacity is 4.00 Lac Liter per day.
MILKFED has its milk unions in almost all the districts of Punjab. These
district units are:-
• Amritsar • Horshiarpur
• Bathinda • Jalandhar
• Chandigarh • Ludhiana
• Faridkot • Patiala
• Ferozpur • Ropar
• Gurdaspur (Mohali)
• Sangrur
These plants in all these unions are being run under the brand name VERKA.
Present Status
No. of societies increased from 94 to 802 and its membership
from 5400 to 78500.
Milk Procurement has increased from 10200 LPD to 2,50,000 LPD.
Highest milk price is being paid to the milk producers as compare
to other plants in the states
Products being manufactured by Ludhiana Plant are sold at
premium rates through out of the country and in the
International Market.
City supply has increase from 66000 LPD to 1,98,000 LPD.
Turnover the plant touched to 283 crores Profit of the union has
increased manifold.
Capacity utilization of the plant is more than 85%.
Full name : The Ludhiana District Cooperative Milk Producers Union Ltd.
• It is fully equipped with modern fluid milk plant facilities. The latest state
of art technology in milk drying is available in this plant.
• The products manufactured by this Plant at present are STM, DTM, FCM,
SMP, WMP, Ghee, Butter, Paneer, Milk-Cake, Dahi, Kheer, Lassi .
Contd…
Some objectives of the Milk Plant are:-
• To uplift social and economic status of milk producers.
• To develop dairy as industry allied to agriculture.
• To provide better and remunerative prices for milk.
• To provide veterinary aids to animals of milk producers at their doorstep.
• To provide better quality cattle feed at reasonable rates.
• To educate the milk producers about lowering down the cost of milk
without compromising quality.
• To create employment opportunities for rural youth by milk production
activities.
• To provide awareness among milk producers for socio-economic change
through co-operative set-up.
Product brand name : VERKA
Milk handling capacity : 6 lakh litres per day
Production of market milk : 2.5 lakh litres per day
Production of butter : 13000 Kg per day
Production of ghee : 14 MT per day
Production of powder : 30 MT per day
Production of paneer : 400-450 Kg per day
Production of kheer : 200 Kg per day
Production of milk cake : 30-40 Kg per day
Production of dahi : 1400 Kg per day
Production of lassi : 3000 Kg per day
POWDER SECTION
• There are definite indication of greater future
productions of dried milk & milk products due to
their better keeping quality, they require less
storage space & lower transportation costs. All
these are economically attractive.
• Dried milk provides a means of handling the
excess milk supply in a dairy factory during flush
season, while in lean season that meant for the
production of dry milk can be diverted to market
milk. Thus, dried milk is called the balance wheel
of dairy industry.
• VERKA MILK PLANT, LUDHIANA has two separate
drying plants.
The Dairy has two separate drying plants, viz:
• Powder section with MVR unit & TVR unit (30TPD)
• Powder section with TVR unit only (6.5TPD)
Compositional & other Standards maintained :-
Parameters SMP Standard grade SMP Extra grade WMP
180+/-10 170+/-5
Cyclone
Control Panel
Processing Operations
Milk-cake
Kheer
Dahi
City Supply Section
Compositional & other Standards maintained :-
Equipments used are- Steam Jacketed Vat, Trolleys, Sealing Machine, Hoops,
Automatic Machine For Processing.
• Cleaning of vats, hoops & muslin cloths is done manually, then they are
sanitized with 0.5% teepol & hot water at 55-60oC
Filtration (with
clean muslin Hoping Packing in
cloth) polythene
sachets
Fat 4-5%
Equipments used are- Steam Jacketed Vat, Weighing Balance, Cans, Incubation
Chamber, Dahi Packaging Machine.
Flow diagram for Dahi manufacture
Standardization
& Sealing the Cups Dahi Prepared
Homogenization
Inoculation with
Lactic Culture
Cooling (37°C) Dispatch
(from previous
day Dahi)
Ludhiana milk Plant is engaged in making two types of butter viz
Table Butter
White Butter (White Butter is made and stored as stock and is used
in lean season for recombination and is also used as base material
for ghee & often supplied for bulk demand).
Unloading
Churning at 2nd Salt @ 2.2% is
Feeding to (before it rotate
gear (30-45 added (for table
butter churn at 2nd gear for 5
min) butter)
min)
Inoculation at 40 °c
ulation with culture at 1% at 40 °c (till acidity reach 0.67%)
Kheer is concentrated heat desiccated
indigenous dairy product.
Taking milk in double jacketed Addition of mixture of sodium Stirring for some time and
vat benzoate and Elaichi powder filling in cups(200 g)