Caracterização de unidades produtoras de leite no município de Quixeramobim, região sertão central do Ceará, Brasil
Alves, Wendell Fellipe de SouzaMorais, Jasiel Santos deKunkel, DanielaAlmeida, Paola SenaLopes, Glauciany SoaresSilva Filho, Manoel Lopes da
The objective was to characterize the dairy farms in the municipality of Quixeramobim-CE. They were conducted 18 interviews with randomly selected properties. The most of production is destined for the local market (55%), for the regional market (33%) and 11.2% of own consumption. At the time of milking 94.35% adopt hygienic habits, such as washing hands and udders, and only 5.65% do not adopt hygienic practices in milking. The milk is marketed in natura (44.4%), cold milk (44.4%) and 11.2% otherwise. The milk is transported in plastic bottles (44.4%), in the tanker (33.3%) and in cans (22.4%). The most properties adopted cleaning wounds (83.25%) and 16.65% had adopted other measures. It concluded that the properties adopt hygiene practices during milking important to improve the quality of milk produced and marketed in the city of Quixeramobim.
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