CUET Dairy Industry & Milk Production Systems: practice questions

1 · World milk production by region and species: cow, buffalo, goat, sheep, camel, yak · easy

Which species produces the largest share of the world's milk?

1. Cattle, at about four-fifths of world output
2. Sheep, because of the large Mediterranean cheese industry
3. Water buffalo, at roughly half of world output
4. Goats, because they are kept in more countries than any other dairy species

2 · World milk production by region and species: cow, buffalo, goat, sheep, camel, yak · easy

Which organisation publishes the most widely used global statistics on milk production by country and species?

1. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2. The World Trade Organization's agriculture committee
3. The International Organization for Standardization's food committee
4. The World Organisation for Animal Health, through its animal census

3 · Smallholder, pasture-based and confinement dairy systems · easy

What is a total mixed ration?

1. A mineral lick placed in the field for grazing animals to use
2. A blended feed of forages and concentrates fed together to housed cows
3. Grass grazed in rotation across several paddocks over the season
4. Crop residues such as straw and stover collected by smallholders after the harvest

4 · Dairy cooperatives: models from Europe, Oceania, the Americas, Africa and Asia · easy

What are the three tiers of the Anand pattern of dairy cooperatives, from the bottom?

1. Village society, district milk union, state federation
2. Farm group, state federation, district milk union
3. Private collector, village society, state federation
4. District union, village society, national federation

5 · Dairy cooperatives: models from Europe, Oceania, the Americas, Africa and Asia · easy

In which year was New Zealand's dominant dairy cooperative formed by merging the two largest cooperatives with the national dairy board?

1. 1882
2. 1970
3. 1946
4. 2001

6 · Milk collection: village collection centres, bulk milk coolers and farm tanks · easy

What three components make up an automatic milk collection unit at a village centre?

1. A cooling coil, a pump and a filling machine
2. A cream separator centrifuge, a homogeniser and a small pasteuriser
3. A lactometer, a thermometer and a hand ledger
4. An electronic scale, a milk analyser and a data processor

7 · Clean milk production on the farm · easy

Why are the first few squirts of milk from each teat stripped before milking?

1. To raise the fat content of the milk sent to the bulk tank
2. To cool the teat so that milk let-down is slowed
3. To detect mastitis and discard the milk with the highest bacterial load
4. To provide the calf with its first colostrum feed before the milker starts work

8 · Raw milk transport and chilling · easy

What is the main purpose of a milk chilling centre in a can-collection milk shed?

1. To separate cream and make butter at village level
2. To pasteurise and pack milk for direct sale to consumers
3. To store milk at room temperature in cans until the processing plant needs it
4. To cool warm can milk quickly before sending it to the processing plant

9 · International dairy trade: commodities, prices and the Global Dairy Trade auction · easy

Roughly what share of the world's milk is traded internationally, in milk-equivalent terms?

1. About a third
2. About a half
3. Under a tenth
4. Almost all

10 · International bodies: IDF, Codex Alimentarius, FAO, ISO TC 34/SC 5 · easy

Which two UN agencies created the Codex Alimentarius Commission?

1. FAO and WHO
2. UNDP and ILO
3. WTO and UNICEF
4. WOAH and UNEP