Wheat Milling

Abstract

India produces more than 70 million tonnes of wheat. It is mainly consumed in the form of atta, suji, maida and baking flour. Most of the wheat is milled in small capacity disc mills to produce wheat flour (atta). Maida-the refined wheat flour, used in the bakery industry, could be produced in capital intensive and sophisticated roller flour mills. Small scale bakery industry is often confronted with the problem of availability of right quality of maida. CFTRI, Mysore has now developed a simple mini wheat mill which simultaneously produces bakery flour, maida, atta and suji. Bran is available as a bye product which is used as animal feed.