United Kingdom 英國
The United Kingdom is self-adequate in flour with a small constructive trade balance. In the UK, the flour is used as the major ingredient in bread, but it can also be used to make cakes, biscuits, soups, pies and a variety of processed foods. Nowadays, flour milling in the United Kingdom is an automatic and resourceful industry, having developed a long-way from the days of wind-driven and water-driven mills. Modern flourmills function as incessant-flow operations all through the year. The flour milling industry in the United Kingdom continues to be the major single user of domestic wheat.
United States 美國
The size and number of flour mills in the American flour milling industry cause the structural changes in the country. This is because of the increasing disposable income and declining in grain prices. As these are the major reasons for changes in the distribution and size of bigger flourmills, automation in manufacture and higher disposable proceeds are vital factors for smaller mills. It is also expected that the domestic supply of flour will be adequate to meet the rising domestic demand by 2000, although the number of wheat flourmills in the United States is expected to decline to 160 from the existing 203.
China 中國
Regarding flour supply, the flour milling industry in China grinds more flour, particularly wheat flour, than any other country in the world. During communist times, many small mills served an area, which is equal to the size of a township. The smallest political division of China takes in local wheat to manufacture flour for nearby villages and towns. However, the condition has been changing quickly in the 30 years since the start of the market-oriented economic improvements. There has been a stable trend toward bigger mills, which are mainly selling to food processing businesses, targeting the growing urban population in the country.
Africa 非洲
Africa has great potential for developing flour milling industry because of its large population and rich grain resources. There have been many flour mills in Sthiopia, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, etc. But in fact the market potential is still large, which means it is still profitable to set up flour mills for wheat, maize, etc. in the above countries or many other African countries.
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