Ammu V K

National Dairy Research Institute | NDRI · Dairy Engineering Department

Spray drying is a widely used technique for production of milk powder. This is a high level energy consumption process. There are scanty published studies on single-stage spray drying plant for skim milk powder production. In this study, thermodynamic analyses, i.e., energy and exergy analyses and exergoeconomic analysis of single stage spray dryin...

Aim: “Women in agriculture” is a widely discussed arena but nutrition of women in agriculture is yet to be explored thoroughly. The current paper focuses on farm women in aspirational districts. These are the districts identified by NITI Aayog which are the poorly performing in a state in various developmental dimensions. Hence, the current paper a...

Different methods are employed today for preservation of foods such as chemical preservatives, heat treatment etc. The disadvantages of using these methods include loss in freshness, originality, nutritional quality and addition of foreign substances in form of preservatives. So, a need was felt to develop a technology which is non-thermal and suff...

The present study was aimed at applying centrifugation for the rapid removal of whey from chhana and investigating the effect of processing parameters on various attributes of chhana. A prototype model based on centrifugation was developed for rapid whey removal from chhana. The optimised spin speed and centrifugation time for manufacturing chhana...

Recently passed three Farm Acts has triggered farmer agitations throughout India. Though the government claims these acts will change the Indian agriculture sector and bring fortune to farmers, why are they protesting then? The current article looks into the depoliticized facts related to the Farm Acts. Major reforms in agricultural marketing are t...

Chhana, regarded as the Indian counter part of soft cottage cheese is a heat acid coagulated milk product that serves as the base for a variety of milk products such as Rasogolla, sandesh, paneer, cham cham, chhana podo, chhana kheer, kheermohan etc. Process mechanization of chhana and chhana based sweets is of huge scope due to the growing momentu...