Smallholder milk quality awareness in Indonesian dairy farms

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dc.contributor.authorFadillah, A.
dc.contributor.authorvan den Borne, B.H.P.
dc.contributor.authorPoetri, O.N.
dc.contributor.authorHogeveen, H.
dc.contributor.authorUmberger, W.
dc.contributor.authorHetherington, J.
dc.contributor.authorSchukken, Y.H.
dc.date.issued2023
dc.descriptionAvailable online 23 August 2023, Version of Record 19 October 2023
dc.description.abstractIn most low- and middle-income countries, milk is produced by smallholders, thereby contributing to the livelihood of their households. With the increasing importance of milk production in these countries, it is essential that milk quality is of a high level to ensure a safe product for consumers. It is, however, unclear whether smallholder dairy farmers are aware of the quality of their milk. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to gain insight on Indonesian smallholder dairy farmers’ awareness of milk quality parameters and to identify factors associated with the total plate count (TPC) and somatic cell count (SCC). A stratified sampling method was utilized to select smallholder farms in 5 districts in West Java, Indonesia that were interviewed between August and September 2017. Factors putatively associated with awareness of TPC were investigated with multinomial regression models while a Firth-type logistic regression was applied to identify factors associated with SCC awareness. Of the total 600 farmers surveyed, 264 (44%), 109 (18%), 170 (28%), 111 (19%), and 23 (4%) farmers were aware of TPC, total solid (TS), fat content, milk density, and SCC, respectively, but did not know its value. Those that were conceptually aware of these quality parameters were generally unaware of their value. Furthermore, this study revealed that the following variables: cooperative, distance to neighboring dairy farmer, technology adoption index, TPC as the most important quality factors for the buyer, milk production information from cooperatives, and cow’s health information from veterinarians were significantly associated with dairy farmers awareness of TPC. Similarly, cooperative, dairy business experience, and milk quality test adoption were significantly associated with dairy farmers’ awareness of SCC. Cooperative was the only variable that was significant in both final statistical models. This indicates that cooperatives play an important role in increasing farmers' awareness of milk quality parameters in these smallholder dairies. This may be valid for other regions in the world also where milk production is dominated by smallholder dairy farmers.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityAchmad Fadillah, Bart H. P. van den Borne, Okti Nadia Poetri, Henk Hogeveen, Wendy Umberger, Jack Hetherington and Ynte H. Schukken
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Dairy Science (JDS), 2023; 106(11):7965-7973
dc.identifier.doi10.3168/jds.2023-23267
dc.identifier.issn0022-0302
dc.identifier.issn1525-3198
dc.identifier.orcidUmberger, W. [0000-0003-4159-7782]
dc.identifier.orcidHetherington, J. [0000-0002-4314-7702]
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2440/140516
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rights© 2023, The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. and Fass Inc. on behalf of the American Dairy Science Association®. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2023-23267
dc.subjectrisk factor; udder health; Firth-type logistic regression; multinomial logistic regression
dc.titleSmallholder milk quality awareness in Indonesian dairy farms
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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