MILK QUALITY IMPROVING BY MEANS OF APPLYING THE MODERN TECHNOLOGIES IN LIVESTOCK FARMING

Abstract

The paper defines the main requirements to the quality of raw milk and outlines the necessity of conforming to the requirements for raw milk producers, milk processing enterprises, catering enterprises and enterprises involved in importing the dairy production for selling in Russia. The publication analyzes qualitative indexes of milk production in agricultural enterprises of Tomsk region and reveals that growth of the indexes studied allows increasing the milk yield annually. The authors study the content of the milk sold and point out that a lot of first-rate milk is received by milk processing enterprises. The share of first-rate milk included more than third part of the total milk sold until 2013. The government introduced the technical regulations in 2013 and the requirements to the first-rate milk became stronger; so the share of the first-rate milk in total milk sold was reduced and was equal just 1.6 %. It is evident, that following the requirements for milk and dairy production in technical regulations is possible only by means of applying the modern technologies in production and selling, from feeds preparation to supplying the processing enterprise with the milk. The authors explain the necessity for agricultural enterprises to apply the modern technologies of keeping and yielding the dairy cattle, which contributes to increase the production quality and competitiveness of dairy production.