B-TECH PROJECTS & GUIDE

We take this humble opportunity to those who have inspired and motivated us to undergo industrial training during the summer vacation of 2011.We are grateful to the Principal Dr.Benny Joseph.He is the leading light of the institution.We would like to thank Mr.Rahul Antony(HOD,Dept of AEI) for allowing us to undergo the training and Mrs.Reema Mathew(Lr,Dept of AEI) who coordinate the industrial training in the best possible way.

We would like to express our deep sense of gratitude to Mr.K T Thomas (Managing Director,MCMPU), Mr.D.S.Konda (Manager,Wayanad Milma) and our guide Mr.Roopesh(Trainingcoordinator,Wayanad Milma)for constant and appropriate guidance throughout the period always.I am also thankful to all the engineers,technical staffs,officers and workers in Wayanad Milma Dairy for their support and guidance during the course of the training.

Milma was established in April 1980 by Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (KCMMF). The mission of Milma is ‘Farmer’s Prosperity through consumer satisfaction’. The objective of Milma is to build up a viable dairy industry in the State and to provide constant market and stable price to the dairy farmers for their produce. The Malabar Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union(MCMPU), head quartered at Kozhikode (Calicut) in Kerala, was started in 1991. It has the 6 Northern Districts of Kerala as its area of operation and an average milk procurement of 4 lakh litres per day. The Union operates 5 Dairy plants and 2 Milk Chilling Centers. It has a Milk Products Dairy too. The network of Bulk Milk Coolers is in fast expansion. Currently a BMC capacity of 2 lakh litres is in place with 75 BMCs installed in the villages. The products comprise Market milk (4 lakh litres per day), curd (40, 000 Kg /Day), Ghee (150 MT per month), Ice-cream (1500 Litres per day), Peda (10 MT per month), Butter milk, Milk Lollies, Sterilized flavored milk etc.

Malabar Regional Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union (MRCMPU) Limited is a Union of more than 1000 village level dairy co-operative societies located in the six northern districts of Kerala State in South India and it is owned by the dairy farmers who are members of each affiliated society and who live in the area of operation of these societies. The societies function on the pattern of the societies affiliated to the world famous Anand Milk Union Ltd. (AMUL) at Anand (Gujarat), India and hence are also known as Anand Pattern Co-op Societies or “APCOS”. The area of operation of MRCMPU Ltd. comprises of the six revenue districts of North Kerala, viz Kasaragod, Kannur, Wayanad, Kozhikode, Malappuram and Palakkad. The Union sells its products under the Milma brand, a common brand for the Kerala Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, which has two more Milk Unions under it at Ernakulam (Kochi) and Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum).

The Wayanad dairy ,coming under MCMPU located at Kalpetta, Wayanad was established on 9/10/2008. The entire process is controlled The processing unit of theDairy is very well organized with each department taking care of specific tasks. There is good networking between each department which adds to the smooth working of this plant. Effective time management is displayed since the processing in itself takes about 20 hours and the rest 4 hours is dedicated to cleaning the equipment. Per day it processes about 2 lakh liters of milk. According to D.S. Konda, Manager, Wayanad dairy,The Wayanad Dairy is the only unit of Milma that has got license to export dairy products to foreign countries. During the last onam festival period, 1,12,000 liters of milk and 63,000 litres of curd were sold. This firm also has an effluent treatment plant and the recycled water is reused for primary purposes (watering and manure). This firm comprises of about 150 workers working via 2 shifts per day.The operations of this dairy are thus very eco-friendly.

The following programmes are carried out at the farmer level to enhance quantity and quality of milk production