LAHORE, June 17: The Pakistan Dairy Development Company plans to establish over 6,000 cooling tanks under its cooling tank programme.

Cooling tanks are an important requirement to protect quality of milk and reduce loss through spoiling. In developed dairy nations, all milk is cooled immediately after milking.

Under the programme, the PDDC has facilitated setting up of 1,000th cooling tank in less than two years.

Prior to it, the dairy sector had around 1,500 cooling tanks in operation. The 1,000 tanks provided through the programme are significant addition to the infrastructure of the sector, said PDDC chief executive Geoff Walker.

PDDC Programme Manager Sarfraz Ahmad stated that the PDDC would play its part in the process of upgrading the quality of the milk in Pakistan. The PDDC, he said, calculates that around 500,000 litres of milk per day is channelled through the cooling tanks established under the programme.

PDDC also plans to establish 650 biogas units throughout Pakistan, and the 65 units now are in operation.—APP