The
department of Dairy Technology is one of the four major departments of
Sheth M.C. College of Dairy Science, which was established in 1961 at
the then Institute of Agriculture; Anand as a grant-in-aid Institution
with the objective of training students in the field of Dairy Technology
to provide technically trained persons to the growing dairy industry of
the state as well as of the nation. With the formation of Gujarat
Agricultural University, in the year 1972, the college of Dairy Science
was elevated to the Status of a faculty with the additional
responsibility of post-graduate teaching, research and extension
activities. In the year 1977 the Department started offering
post-graduate studies leading to M.Sc. (Dairying) and Ph.D. (Dairying)
in Dairy Technology. Since 2004, the earstewhile GAU has been split into
4 Agricultural Universities, the Dairy Science College is also a
constituent college of the Anand Agricultural University, Anand.