Improved Milk Processing Techniques: User manual on Fermented Milk Technologies for Small Scale Producers & Processors in Ethiopia

In Ethiopia about 98% of milk and milk products are produced in the traditional small scale production system. Milk processing is based on natural fermentation and traditional technologies.There are quit a lot of traditional milk products that are produced and processed using traditional knowledges gained from generations.But the shelflives of such products are short and their microbial qualities are substandard.Modern preservation and cooling techniques are not practiced in the system.Besides, such traditional practices are not well documented and thoroghly investigated.hence, there is a need to document the existing knowledge to embark in to modern technologies.Simple and easily adoptable tecnologogies are also needed to be popularized in the system to bridge the gaps to produce and process shelfstable and quality dairy products.