KVASU, COLLEGE OF DAIRY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MANNUTHY - [CDST], THRISSUR

Established year : 1993

College of Dairy Science and Technology, Mannuthy have been instrumental in contributing quality manpower to the dairy and allied industries in India and abroad for last twenty five years. Faculty of Dairy Science and Technology has four constituent colleges offering B. Tech Dairy Technology and one offering B.Tech Food Technology.B. Tech (Dairy Science and Technology), a four year graduate professional programme, the first of its kind in the state was started in the year 1993 at the College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences under Kerala Agricultural University (KAU). Later it was upgraded to the status of a college in the year 1998. With the advent of the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) in 2010, the college was further upgraded to the status of an independent Faculty. The college will soon be celebrating its silver jubilee on its own building Verghese Kurien Institute of Dairy and Food Technology (VKIDFT). The College of Dairy Science & Technology (CDST) has endowed more than 500 Dairy professionals who are well placed with challenging responsibilities in dairy industry, research institutes, academia and allied sectors. Various academic activities of the college are harnessed through the seven different departments namely, Dairy Technology, Dairy Engineering, Dairy Microbiology, Dairy Chemistry, Dairy Business Management, Dairy Husbandry and Dairy Extension in terms of Milk Production, Processing and Marketing. The course curricula for B. Tech (Dairy Science & Technology), is prepared as a unique job oriented degree programme which leads to a total development of graduates and make them capable to face varied situations in their field of work. Students are also enriched with entrepreneurial qualities to start their own industry. Additionally, the graduates get acquainted with various facts of professionally managed industries which include production management, raw material purchases, personnel management, sales and marketing by virtue of industrial in- plant training.