POWDERED MILK

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30144, 30 May 1963, Page 14

POWDERED MILK

Forecast On Consumption (N.Z. Press Association) PALMERSTON N., May 29. World consumption of milk powders was bound to increase, and it was quite likely that milk powders in the future would be Nev; Zealand’s most important dairy export, said Mr'U G. Holland, senior lecturer in animal science at Lincoln College, addressing the dairy farmers’ meeting at MasseyCollege today. Over the last 20 years, substantial progress had been made in milk technology, especially in regard to the production and utilisation of dried milk. Since World War 11, the world production and consumption of dried milk had increased by nearly 500 per cent., and dried skim milk formed the greater part of the output. International trade in dried skim milk had now reached very large proportions, he said. New Zealand was now a leading exporting country for skim milk powder, ranking after the United States and possibly France. Existing plant in the Dominion would undoubtedly be capable of expanding materially the current output, Mr Holland said. Interest had quickened in recent years, too, in the nutritive value of dried milk products, and this had led to a new appreciation of the value of dried milk, especially high-quality dried skim milk, as a human food. It was now accepted that milk protein in the form of dried skim milk was the most valuable source of complementary protein for poorly-nourished children in under-developed regions of the world, said Mr Holland.