MILKA KREM OVERVIEW
SCIENCE CITY OF MUÑOZ, Nueva Ecija –The Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) has launched a market venue for dairy farmers called "Milka Krem,"the venue will serve as market place for locally produced milk after being processed in the state-of the-art central milk collecting and processing facility in this city. PCC director, Dr. Caro Salces said that essentially, the Milka Krem is an infrastructure support for dairy farmers. It is an avenue to empower small farmers that are provided with an opportunity to have an access to the commercial market for bigger income. The Milka Krem carries the tagline “Fresh and Natural” which is anchored on products development through science-based practices, Salces said. The raw milk that is processed every day comes from healthy animals that are well-managed and taken cared off by small dairy farmers, he said.

The PCC official said that these dairy animals are fed with naturally-grown forage and feeds that guarantee their sound diet essential for the production of fresh milk.
Prior to processing and packaging, the freshly harvested milk is pasteurized to preserve the high level of health-promoting substances such as anti-cancer properties naturally inherent in buffalo milk, he said. Buffalo milk is high in milk solids and protein content making it very suitable for dairy product processing, he added. Dr. Salces said that Milka Krem’s flagship products are coffee concoctions that are all milk-based, "mozzarella di buffala cheese", "kesong puti", premium ice cream, yogurt, and "pastillas de leche."

The Milka Krem fosters an advocacy that “in every satisfied patron of the dairy products is a satisfied need of a smallholder dairy farmer in the rural community.” He said that the establishment of the facility is a component of the P200 million-worth Kennedy Round 2 (2KR) grant assistance for underprivileged farmers