Preface

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the dairy industry. It is divided into four sections.

Section 1, "Dairy Technology," includes one chapter on the bio-molecular characteristics of whey proteins in relation to inflammation. Whey protein is categorized to contain a plethora of healthy components conferring anti-inflammatory and immunostimulatory roles related to all metabolic syndromes.

Section 2, "Reproductive Biotechnology," includes one chapter on folliculogenesis, fertility and biotechnology in dairy cattle. The chapter has attempted to describe the most important aspects of this process. Moreover, not all follicles reach the preovulatory phase and can be fertilized, thus the author of the chapter has discussed how reproductive biotechniques can positively influence the fertility of bovine females. The chapter also describes the influence of antral follicle count on reproductive performance and the correlation to biotechniques was described. Finally, the chapter presents alternatives on how to improve fertility and productive efficiency in dairy herds.

Section 3, "Entrepreneurship Development," includes three chapters.

The first chapter discusses the fact that vermi-products have a good livelihood and entrepreneurship-generating opportunities

The second chapter on "green gold" refers to the major bottleneck of dairy effluent treatment plant (ETP) operation. The generation of nutrient-rich wastewater from processed milk results in the annual production of 7.93 tons of carbon dioxide gas during treatment in a seven to eight-step process. The chapter proposes a carefully selected, tailor-made bacterial consortium in a biofilm reactor with a four- hours incubation in a single-step operation, transforming to transform the total volume of wastewater into ammonia-rich liquid biofertilizer. This technique helps to solve one of the major concerns for sustaining the expansion of the dairy industry, hence making the EETPffluent Treatment Plant (ETP) operation an eco-friendly operation.

The final chapter in this section provides information on low-cost and user-friendly dairy farming innovations suitable for all kinds of farms maintained under rural conditions existing in different tropical countries.

Section 4, "Sustainable Development," includes four chapters.

The first is on regional breeds and examines the situation of cattle and buffalo in Europe that supply milk to the processing industry. It provides a brief description of the origin and cognition of different regional and local dairy breeds, the presentation of morphological and productive characters, as well as the perspective of rearing or conservation.

The second chapter in this section, the chapter on minerals nutrition reports its interaction with the Health and Reproductive performance of Dairy Cows. This chapter discusses the linkages of several mineral elements into the health and reproductive performance that affect the dairy industry of dairy cows.

The third chapter regards the prediction of future milk yield. A time series analysis of data from a dairy farm used both descriptive and inferential statistics, covering a total of 179 days of milk production. The results reveal that the milk yield of cows is declining, and that milk output is time-dependent and that the model is ARIMA.

Finally, the section ends with a chapter that presents the research methodology that generates an integrated database of the mind of a dairy consumer, regarding nine different dairy products. The set of studies deals with a variety of end products, presenting alternative messages about each product. The chapter demonstrates how the science of Mind Genomics is further applied through a typing tool, known as PVI (personal viewpoint identifier). The PVI is able to identify the mind-set of any individual that provides a binary response to six short questions. The chapter concludes with a vision for the future of the Mind Genomics research methodology in the fields of science and business.
