Milk and Meat Production

Overview

The technology diploma (DUT) in milk and meat production trains technicians specialising in production livestock. Students learn to feed, monitor and care for animals, and to organise milking, fattening and sales.

Teaching includes milk and meat hygiene, to ensure safe products for consumers.

Objectives

• Run a dairy or fattening unit.
• Optimise feeding for milk and meat production.
• Ensure product hygiene and quality.
• Manage an animal production unit.

Target skills

• Formulate fattening and dairy rations.
• Organise hygienic milking and milk collection.
• Monitor animal growth and health.
• Carry out simple milk processing.
• Calculate the costs and margins of a livestock unit.

Curriculum

First year (S1-S2): animal biology and anatomy, livestock basics, animal feeding, forage crops, applied mathematics, computing.

Second year (S3-S4): dairy production, cattle and sheep fattening, poultry farming, milk and meat hygiene, processing, livestock management and on-farm internship.

Indicative curriculum: the distribution of courses may change from one academic year to the next.

Career opportunities

• Dairy technician
• Fattening unit manager
• Milk collection and processing officer
• Livestock entrepreneur
• Animal production advisor

Career outcomes also depend on internship experience and each student's career plans.