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Traditional milk processing and value‐added dairy products in selected Arab countries
Author(s) -
Wilson Richard Trevor
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of dairy technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.061
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1471-0307
pISSN - 1364-727X
DOI - 10.1111/1471-0307.12399
Subject(s) - livestock , geography , population , agricultural economics , mesopotamia , socioeconomics , agricultural science , biology , forestry , economics , demography , archaeology , sociology
The 22 countries of the Arab League occupy a combined area of 13.13 million square kilometres extending from the Atlantic coast of Africa in the west to Mesopotamia in the east. The total human population is of the order of 356.8 million people. Livestock (camel, sheep, goat and cow) have been kept by the Arabs for thousands of years and continue to be important in household and national economies. This article identifies and describes traditional milk processing activities and their derived products in a selection of countries of the area.