Indian PhD Scholar Wins BRICS Young Scientist Award

Ravi Prakash, an Indian PhD scholar from Bihar has won the USD 25,000 BRICS-Young Innovator Prize for inventing an affordable milk chilling unit for rural dairy farmers.
Prakash, PhD scholar of ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Bangalore, was a part of a 21-member delegation sent to Brazil by the Department of Science and Technology for the 4th BRICS-Young Scientist Forum (YSF), 2019.
When the milk cools down, the chances of bacteria formation reduce. This helps farmers to minimise the risks and get better prices for milk in the market.
The innovation of affordable indigenous milk chilling unit is of great socio-economic importance for all the developing countries by preserving the quality and safety of milk just after production. It will add value in farmer’s kitty.
It can be used for chilling milk from point of production by bringing down the temperature of raw milk from 37C to 7C within half an hour using nano-fluid based phase change materials.