SKILL DEVELOPMENT COURSES
ZOOLOGY STREAM
Syllabus of DAIRY TECHNOLOGY
SYLLABUS
Section I (Introduction and Establishment of a Dairy Farm)
1.1 Dairy development in India – Dairy Cooperatives (NDRI, NDDB, TCMPF)
1.2 Constraintsof Present Dairy Farmingand Future Scope of Dairy Farmer.
1.3 Selection of site for dairy farm; Systems of housing – Loose housing system,
Conventional Dairy Farm; Records to be maintained in a dairy farm.
Section II (Livestock Identification and Management)
2.1 Breeds of Dairy Cattle and Buffaloes – Identification of Indian cattle and buffalo breeds
and Exotic breeds; Methods of selection of Dairy animals.
2.2 Systems of inbreeding and crossbreeding.
2.3 Weaning of calf, Castration, Dehorning, Deworming and Vaccination programme
2.4 Care and management of calf, heifer, milk animal, dry and pregnant animal, bulls and
bullocks.
Section III (Feed Management, Dairy Management, Cleaning and Sanitation)
3.1 Basic Principles of Feed, Important Feed Ingredients, Feed formulation and Feed
Mixing
3.2 Operation Flood –Definition of Milk and Nutritive value of milk and ICMR
recommendation of nutrients –Per Capita Milk production and availability in India
and Andhra Pradesh -Methods of Collection and Storage of Milk–Labelling and
Storage of milk products
3.3 Cleaning and sanitation of dairy farm – Safety precautions to prevent accidents in an
industry.