India is the largest milk producer in the world but only 20% of its milk production is being processed. In order to boost their milk procurement, many dairies have setup societies or collection centers in the rural areas. This has assured a remunerative price and market support to the producers. The traditional system of milk collection by the Dairy Cooperative societies included mainly to accept milk by volumes, carrying out fat testing and entering the fat and SNF data manually in the registers.

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