Opinions of Members of the Department of Food Sciences with Obstacles to Food Processing in the Dairy and Food Industries Laboratory of the College of Agriculture and Forestry / University of Mosul

Author : Amina Zuhair AL-Hafidh, Layla Azhar Ahmed and Shaymaa Jawad Mahmood

The research aims at identifying the obsticles against the manufacturing of foods at the factory of College of Agriculture / Mosul University from the point of view of the samples members studied and then finding the differences between the size of these obsticles against producing foodstuff at the factory of foodstuff production at the college mentioned above in accordance with the variables of (gender, age, occupation and the number of researches conducted). The sample of the study involved all the subjects of the research population, which was represented by the teaching staff and the primary and the higher studies students at the department of Foods Science. Results showed that the level of size of obsticles, in general, ,was medium and tends to be high and the domain of the financial obsticles was in the first rank and the domain of the technical obsticles was the last in order. Also, results demonstrated that there were no significant statistical differences in the size of obsticles of foodstuff manufacturing according to the variables of (gender, age and occupation). On the other hand, results showed that there were significant differences in the size of obsitcles of foodstuff manufacturing according to the variable of the number of researches performed at the factory. The researchers submitted a set of recommendations, which include: elevating the production capacity of the factory via urging the teaching staff members to conduct researches that are related to developing the factory and to ensure inroducing the machines and technologies relevant to the activities and capacity of the factory and applying a work mechanism that achieves the fruitful cooperation between the departments of College of Agriculture and Forestry and the top management to connect the various products of the College with the Factory of dairy products and the foodstuff industry / Mosul University in order to reduce the efforts and costs as well as the assurance of the safety and quality of the products.

Keywords : Food industry, Dairy, Manufacturing Constraints,

Received:3/9/2025 12:00:00 AM; Accepted: 4/9/2025 12:00:00 AM