A Splendid Journey of NDRI towards the Glorious Era in Dairy Research and Education

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1 A Splendid Journey of NDRI towards the Glorious Era in Dairy Research and Education

2 Imperial Institute of Animal Husbandry & Dairying established at Bangalore in 1923 Genesis and Glorious Past National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) at Karnal, Haryana is one of the premier institutes in dairy sector which has contributed a lot in the growth of dairy industry and played a crucial role in India s development in milk production with its continuous research. Over ninety year old NDRI s lineage goes back to the Imperial Institute for Animal Husbandry & Dairying which was set up in Bangalore in 1923 as a center for dairy education. In 1936 it was renamed as Imperial Dairy Institute and in 1955 it was shifted to its present site in Karnal and renamed again as National Dairy Research Institute. The infrastructure of Imperial institute was retained as southern regional station of NDRI and later in 1964 Eastern regional station was set up at Kalyani in West Bengal. In 1970, NDRI was brought under Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Two Unique Students In its erstwhile form of Imperial Institute in Bangalore, Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, who has been recently honoured with Bharat Ratna, were imparted training at the Institute in They wanted to get acquainted with modern methods of cattle management and spent two weeks discussing and learning technicalities and complexities of problems pertaining to cows and buffalos in India. Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya and Mahatma Gandhi at erstwhile Institute in Bangalore Rewards and Recognitions NDRI has many feathers to its cap and its contributions and role in the overall development of the dairy sector and dairy related research and education is well recognised. Recently, it was conferred Sardar Patel Outstanding ICAR Institute award for its outstanding achievements in the field of dairying. The award was presented by the Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, in July It has also been awarded Agriculture Leadership Award 2013 for setting up a benchmark in dairy research by contributing in research efforts to augment milk productivity, value addition, quality and safety of milk and economic and marketing aspects related to dairying. The Institute also received Education Leadership Dr. A. K. Srivastava Director NDRI receiving Agricultural Leadership Award

3 Award last year, in recognition of the talent and leadership among educational institutes across India. In addition, many of its scientists have also won different awards and recognitions for their outstanding research. For instance, National Research and Development Corporation has recently selected NDRI s adulteration detection kit for an award. Recently, NDRI has been certified ISO 9001: 2008 Institute to undertake research, teaching, training and consultancy in the field of dairy programmes, Dairy Production, Dairy Processing and Dairy Management. development programme. By its varied research and academic activities on campus and extension programmes to reach to common farmers, NDRI is successfully striving to meet its goal and prepare the dairy profession to help in country s nutritional security, meet new challenges and even potential international competition. Along with production increase oriented research like genetic improvement of milch animals and improved nutrients and feeding strategies, it is also concentrating on development of milk based nutraceutical products & functional foods, value addition to traditional milk products through bio-technologies and developing low cost and highly sensitive kits for detecting adulteration in milk. Sprawling Campus: Infrastructure for R&D Activities A foreign student working in Lab Mission Oriented Goals The primary goal of the Institute is to provide R&D support towards generation and dissemination of knowledge for development of milch herd, milk production enhancement, value addition and development of functional dairy foods for better human health, upliftment of dairy profession and contributing to manpower Situated on the sprawling 560 hectare campus at Karnal, NDRI has nearly 1800 dairy animals with modern milking parlour system and shelter management system catering to breed improvement projects and other research activities, number of labs equipped with the state-of-the-art analytical instrument to conduct research in most advanced areas of molecular biology, cell structure, fermentation technology, protein chemistry, nutritional studies, food technology and micro element analysis. 3

4 Herd of Sahiwal cows at Livestock Farm of the Institute In addition to an experimental dairy for teaching and R& D activities NDRI also has a commercial dairy plant with a processing capacity of more than 60,000 liters of milk per day to provide hands on training facilities to students and for scientists to carry out scaling up operations for products and processes developed in research labs, a bakery unit and national library on dairying having 94,000 documents. Headed by Director& Vice Chancellor, NDRI has organizationally two wings, each headed by a Joint Director. One is for research headed by Joint Director (Research), and another is for education headed by Joint Director (Academic). NDRI has three major areas of R&D activities dairy production, dairy processing and dairy extension/management under which 13 research divisions/sections viz. Dairy Cattle Nutrition, Animal Bio-chemistry, Animal Biotechnology, Dairy Cattle Breeding, Dairy Cattle Nutrition, Dairy Cattle Physiology, Livestock Production and Management, Forage Research, Dairy Microbiology, Dairy Chemistry, Dairy Technology, Dairy Engineering, Dairy Economics, Statistics and Management and Dairy Extension function. It has also set up stateof-the-art facility of National Referral Laboratory for Milk Quality and Safety and Climate Resilient Livestock Research Centre, one of its kinds in the country. The referral laboratory is useful for conducting R&D/HRD development and standards development for milk and milk products. It will play an important role particularly when the country would soon harmonise its standards of milk and milk products with Codex standards. Nearly 160 highly qualified and experienced scientists and 260 technical staff, in addition to administrative and support staff, work at NDRI to run its research and academic programmes having total annual budget of over Rs 145 crores. Educational Programmes NDRI received the deemed university status in It has also been ranked 4 th top agricultural university of India and 41 among all universities/ deemed universities, national universities and research institutes of India. Two years after it started functioning at Karnal, the first formal dairy technology course was started in India at NDRI in Till now NDRI has produced more than 2154 dairy diploma holders, 2163 dairy graduates, 2066 post-graduates and 953 doctorates in various disciplines in dairying. Former President of India, Hon ble Shri Abdul Kalam Azad giving away degrees to NDRI students 4 Young researchers of NDRI

5 NDRI runs a four- year degree course in B.Tech. (Dairy Technology), two year M.Sc./M.Tech./M.V. Sc. programme and Ph.D. programme in different disciplines of Dairy Production, Processing and Management. Approximately 1000 students are taking education simultaneously under these programmes. Each year around foreign students from African and Asian countries are also admitted to these courses. Its Southern Regional Station and Eastern Regional Station run diploma courses in Dairy Technology and Dairy Production. The 49 e-courses for B.Tech. degree programme have been prepared and uploaded for online delivery to dairy Science Colleges/ Institutions across India. The academic programmes of the Institute attracted several international academic professionals for obtaining training and short term education in various aspects of dairying. The Institute has also entered into collaborations with Banaras Hindu University, Sam Higginbottom, Institute of Agriculture Technology and Sciences ( Deemed University) Allahabad, U.P., Guru Angad Dev Veterinary & Animal Sciences University Ludhiana. Indira Gandhi National Open University and European Union for exchange of faculty and students to promote excellence in teaching. In addition, the well-structured comprehensive courses of the Institute render the students in high demand in non-dairying organizations such as medical institutions, pharmaceutical industry, finance sector, etc. Many of our graduates have established themselves as leading entrepreneurs, who have set up their own dairy enterprises dealing with dairy equipment design and fabrication, dairy products manufacture and IT industry. The Institute has also been recognized as Centre of Advanced Faculty Training in the disciplines of Animal Genetics & Breeding and Dairy Technology to further strengthen its HRD activities. NDRI has also got the recognition as Niche Area in Animal Biotechnology for its educational programmes. The valuable scientific expertise that the Institute has gained in tropical dairying is being shared with the scientific community through specially designed international training courses. There are 30 such courses offered, covering contemporary knowledge base for addressing problems related to animal breeding, feeding, milk processing and marketing. NDRI survey team at a remote villege in Rajasthan Creating History through Research and Development Programmes NDRI has achieved landmark success in the area of animal cloning by producing the world s first buffalo cloned calves using hand guided cloning through somatic cells derived from new born calf, seminal plasma, embryonic stem cell 5

6 as well as adult animal cell. Its achievement in the birth of world s first cloned buffalo calf Garima has entered into Limca book of world records. One of the core areas of the NDRI s research is raising productivity of dairy animals through improved feeding strategies, nutrient utilization and non-conventional feed resources. The nutritive quality of poor quality roughages and agro-industrial by-products used as animal feed has been improved besides developing improved varieties of fodder and their cultivation methods. Currently, another important area of NDRI s research is development of nutraceuticals from milk; functional foods with pre-biotics, pro-biotics, micronutrients and other bioactive compounds for improved human health. Technologies of certain popular milk products of different regions of the country have been standardised and several innovative ready to reconstitute formulations for popular indigenous products like gulabjamun, kheer etc are ready with NDRI for adoption at industrial scale. New formulated foods like whey-based lassi, flavoured drinks, low-fat spreads, new functional dairy products or health foods like pro-biotic cheese, sports drinks, low cholesterol ghee, herbal ghee, burfi for diabetics have been developed at NDRI. Some of the magic tools of bio-technology are also being explored to develop novel products and processes. Inclusion of ingredients from other food groups such as cereals, fruits and vegetables to formulate breakfast smoothies, iron-fortified biscuits based on pearl millet, PRODUCTS DEVELOPED & COMMERCIALIZED Novel Composite C Commercialized: i li d Products Developed Pearl millet-whey based complementary food Wh protein-enriched Whey t i i h d iron i f tifi d biscuits fortified bi it Whey protein-enriched Pearl millet pasta B j lassi Bajra l i Probiotic Whey-pearl millet drink L Low costt millet-milk ill t ilk b based d nutrimix t i i and Probiotic Dahi probiotic beverage based on barley as well as pearl millet, millet-based weaning and extruded foods is an example of the Institute s foray into the realm of composite foods. Equipments have been designed for both small scale dairy operations and mechanized production. NDRI has developed research methodologies for economic evaluation of dairy production and processing systems, which have been recognized as empirical tool by researchers and development specialists. In order to fight the widespread menace of milk adulteration NDRI has developed highly sensitive low-cost colour based detection test for Anionic detergents, two stage enzyme assay for detection of Listeria monocytogenes and micro-technique for detection of Enterococci in milk. Similarly, it has also developed strip based tests for detection of added Glucose, Hydrogen peroxide, Maltodextrin and neutralizers etc.the detergent detection test has been developed for 28 different brands of detergents. Reliability and sensitivity of these tests is very high as even TESTS DEVELOPED TO ASSURE MILK QUALITY A RAPID TEST FOR DETECTION OF DETERGENT IN MILK STRIP BASED TESTS FOR DETECTION OF ADULTERANTS IN MILK Strip based tests for the detection of Neutralizers, Urea, Glucose, hydrogen peroxide and Maltodextrin in milk have been developed. The technologies have been commercialized. Colour Chart for Detection of Neutralizers in Milk Colour Chart for Detection of Maltodextrin in Milk 6 TEST KIT FOR DETECTION OF ANTIBIOTIC RESIDUES IN MILK Purple colour in lower layer indicates pure milk. Blue colour in lower layer indicates presence of d t detergent. t Test has been commercialized TWO O STAGE S G ENZYME BASED S ASSAY SS FOR O DETECTION OF L. MONOCYTOGENES IN MILK

7 2% adulteration can be detected. Recently, NDRI has developed detection strips for some contaminants, but its aim is to develop kits for all bacteria, antibiotic and pesticide residues, and to reduce time and cost required for conducting these tests. Existing test to detect Listeria monocytogenes takes 5 to 7 days and costs `500, but the two-stage test developed by NDRI can detect this food pathogen within a day and costs only `75. Entrepreneurship Development and Partnership with Stakeholders Besides the research and academics, NDRI also runs Technology Business Incubator and has launched Business Planning and Development (BPD) unit to promote knowledge-based and innovation-driven dairy enterprises. It supports and provides training and facilities required for young budding entrepreneurs. It conducts entrepreneurship awareness camps, entrepreneurship development programmes, training programmes and provides specialized services to existing SMEs and incubation of start-up ventures and mentoring. Incubatee working at Bakery Unit in BPD Collaborations for Translating Ideas into Actions The scientific competence and excellence in conducting various research programmes at the Institute has attracted funds from various National and International organizations/agencies. To exchange information and acquire current and advanced knowledge in basic and applied fields of Dairy Science, the Institute maintains close liaison with various ICAR/CSIR Institutes, Dept. of Biotechnology, Dept. of Science and Technology, Indian Council of Medical Research, Dept. of Atomic Energy, NDDB, Ministry of Food Processing & Industry, SAUs and various Government Agencies at State and National levels, and several International organizations such as World Bank, IAEA, UNDP, IDF, DAAD, Volkswagen Foundation, AvH Foundation and several leading institutions in the UK, USA, Canada, Germany, Netherlands and Australia. At present, research support through external funding from 70 Externally Funded Research Projects is the highest ever in the history of NDRI. The Institute has attracted huge funding from NAIP to the tune of 34 crores through twenty one research projects in Consortium mode wherein NDRI has been either a lead Institute or a consortium partner. Transferring Innovations to Farmers Fields Dairy farmers remain the central theme of all the R&D activities of the Institute. NDRI s farming system research approach in adopted villages has made significant contributions to the economic prosperity of the farming communities. It has initiated a unique programme Farmers School for imparting non- formal education to farmers in all the aspects of agriculture. The Farming System Research approach used by NDRI in adopted villages has made significant contributions to the economic prosperity of the farming communities. New scientific knowhow on animal husbandry including milk and crop production has been transferred by means of Grameen Dairy Melas, Calf Rallies, Veterinary Camps, Women Agriculture Days, Field Days and on-farm demonstrations. More than 10,000 milk-producing households under various farm-level programmes have benefitted through these continuing activities. A major Pilot Project on Technology Assessment and Refinement through Institution - Village Linkage Programme (IVLP) has also been completed to identify available resources, production systems, problems in agriculture and animal husbandry and gender-related issues affecting rural development. A unique programme Dairy Education at Farmers Door has been initiated, wherein scientists visit villages, meet farmers, advise them and try to solve their problems at their premises. The Institute efforts have led to the formation of a Self-help Group of rural women in village Amrit Kalan (Karnal) in which the major emphasis is production of different 7

8 milk products at village level and marketing the same in Karnal town. A three-day mega event called National Dairy Mela is held at NDRI campus every year. The events include animal show, milk competition for different breeds and types of animals, exhibition stalls for display & demonstration of new technologies, kisan sangosthies, dairy product making competitions etc. More than 30,000 farmers from different states participated in the Mela held in March Attractive prizes/incentives are given to the owners of champion animals. Other ICAR institutes, govt agencies and private firms in the agri-sector also participate in the Mela to exhibit their products & services. Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) at NDRI conducts regular training programmes for farmers and rural women in order to acquaint them with modern dairy farming practices. Since its inception in 1976, more than 3800 training programmes for various categories of end users have benefitted more than 65,000 rural youths, school drop-outs, farm women, farmers and ex-servicemen. The Dairy Extension Division of the Institute has developed information packages in the form of video films and multimedia packages on clean milk production, hygienic milk processing and packaging and scientific calf rearing based on Information and Communication Techniques (ICT). Mechanisms for transforming the output of R&D efforts into viable technologies are being further strengthened by establishing National Demonstration Centers. Keeping in view the significance of ICT in relation to Transfer of Technology (TOT) in the current scenario, the Agricultural Technology Information Center (ATIC) of the Institute works as a single window delivery system for all queries related to technologies available at the Institute. Our Innovations that Radiated Smiles The Institute continues to share its innovative dairy processing technologies with the Indian Dairy Industry through the Consultancy Processing Cell. Some of the technologies that have been transferred are those of longlife paneer, whey- jaljeera drink, instant banana milk mix, payasam mix, gulabjamun mix, calcium-enriched milk, emulsifier mix for frozen desserts, herbal ghee etc.as a result of proactive steps taken by the Institute towards transfer the technologies, industry has picked up some of the prominent innovations and technologies of the Institute in the recent past such as; low cholesterol ghee, a new test for the detection of detergent in milk, a kit for antibiotic residues, area specific mineral mixture for animals, technology for iron fortified biscuits, recombinant chymosin, and bacterial rennet. Budding entrepreneur being given training on milk and milk products Each year NDRI organizes institute industry interaction on December 1 to present the technologies and processes developed by NDRI scientists for transferring them to the industry for widespread regular use. During the calendar year 2014, the Institute has been successful in transferring a record number of 19 technologies to Dairy and Food sector. All rights reserved February 9, 2015 NDRI Publication No. 128/2015 Published by: Production : Dr. A. K. Srivastava Director, NDRI Dr. R. K. Malik Joint Director (Res.) Text & Execution: Dr. Meena Malik Associate Prof. (English) Mr. Braj Kishor Sr. Technical Officer Layout: Mr. Sunil Sharma Technical Officer 8 ICAR-NATIONAL DAIRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Deemed University) Karnal India Tel.: Fax: dir@ndri.res.in Website: