Camel Milk Sector: Production, Processing, Market
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 4808
Special Issue Editors
Interests: large camelids; camel milk; camel meat; milk and meat processing; animal welfare; camel farming
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2. Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty 050040, Kazakhstan
Interests: camel; milk composition; milk processing; biochemistry; biotechnology
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Dear Colleagues,
For a long time, camel milk consumption was limited to desert areas as a gift for visitors and mainly self-consumed by the family of nomads. Due to this, only raw or fermented milk was available. In the last few decades, camel milk has progressively entered local, national, and international markets. This introduction was possible in the current context of climatic change, urbanization growth, and new demand from consumers. This new context impacted camel farming systems and stimulated research and innovations on camel milk processing, dairy product diversification, and marketing. Significant advances were reported in the making of cheese, yoghurt, fermented beverages, powder, and in the identification of alternatives to heat treatment, UHT camel milk still being impossible for the moment. Such advances allow the emergence of a camel milk sector in the national and international economy with a significant growth not only in traditional “camel countries”, but also in western countries, stimulating the new implementation of camel farms. A recent paper published in Animals regarding “Recent Advances in Camel Milk Processing” emphasized the questions facing the various players in the sector, researchers, processors, economists, manufacturers, traders, etc. Camel milk processing has many implications both on the qualitative constraints of production and on the added value of products.
Thus, this Special Issue focuses on the emergence of the camel milk sector worldwide and will elucidate the challenges for science and development regarding the sustainable production, processing, and marketing of camel milk.
Dr. Bernard Faye
Dr. Gaukhar Konuspayeva
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- camel milk quality
- health effect of camel milk consumption
- technical innovations in camel milk processing
- new dairy camel products
- camel millkmilk marketing
