Hello! My name is Nurjannah Dalilah Bt. Ahmad Halizan (72593) as a Year 2 Biotechnology Resource student in UNIMAS. Subject Animal Biotechnology has instructed students to hold a program called Service Visit Learning (SVL). Since we can't do it face to face due to this pandemic situation, this SVL needs to be extended online. So, my teammates and I from G1C have agreed with G1K to plan to make an investigation comparison on the Management of Milk Production Companies between East and West Malaysia. My teammate and I have agreed to make an interview on the issue at a factory in West Malaysia.
Milk has a vital role in mammal’s life, right from birth before
we start eating solid food. Milk has lots of benefits since the nutrients
contained in milk are quite impressive. It is a good source of vitamins, potassium, calcium, proteins, and so on. All of these nutrients are crucial for maintaining both bones and teeth healthy as well as strong. The mechanism behind this is our body
depends on these nutrients for the development of stronger bones. This is
because it contains complete protein. Raw cow’s milk provides all the standard
amino acids, which our body will store then convert into the usable form. About
80% of the protein content in milk is casein that quite stable in the heat but easy to
digest. Immunoglobulins are a very complex type of milk protein also known as antibodies which are useful
to protect our body from
viruses, bacteria, bacterial toxins, and can also
help reduce the severity of
asthma symptoms.
Our project begins by finding any peninsula factory that is willing to accept offers for questionnaires
through phone call interviews. At first, it was quite difficult to find a
factory that matches the criteria with our SVL title. All 5 of my teammates
worked hard to find it but many obstacles coming through. For example,
some factories only process the milk but do not raise or breeding cattle.
Luckily, there is a factory that has agreed to be our interviewee and it is
very easy for us to deal with because it just by using WhatsApp phone
number to communicate with the factory. This is flexible as we are dealing
with someone who at a higher-up party! We had
chosen NS Dairy Farm, one of the well-known farms located in Kuala Pilah, Negeri
Sembilan. This farm produces better and good quality milk, 100% freshly from the cows without additions of any
preservatives. In 2014, the farm
launched its very first product that is flavored milk like strawberry,
chocolate, corn, and yam. Aside from that, they also expand their products by
adding ice cream, pudding, and yogurt from the cow’s milk. For that
reason, it evokes our desire to
investigate the management of their factory in producing high-quality fresh
milk!
After all that, we will determine who will interview the factory and who will make the presentation later via the WhatsApp group that we had established. With that, we had also listed a few problem issues and objectives on our topic to be interpreted more in the proposal. To make it more meticulous, we had decided to set a time to finalize the content proposal with all group members (G1C+G1K) through Zoom Meeting & Microsoft Teams so that everyone is clear about what will be done during this SVL program. I am very happy because my teammates all cooperate and come up with brilliant ideas.
