Roller Flour Milling sector processes around 12 – 15 per cent of the total wheat consumed in the country, the balance being processed through Stone Chakkis. The purpose of the milling process is to break up the grains of wheat into flour (which comes from the centre of the grain, or endosperm), bran (the skin of the wheat), and pollard (the dusty material created during the grinding process). Whole meal flour is a blend of flour, bran and pollard in the proportions in which they occur in the grain.
The Packaged Wheat Flour Market in India started breaking the old age traditions of grinding wheat at local Chakki mills by growing at a whooping Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19% and may likely to be double the current size by end of this decade. However, the wheat flour market largely dominated by local chakki mills in India; the branded packaged wheat flour segment is emerging rapidly in the country by offering better quality, nutrition and convenience. As a whole there is a good scope for new entrepreneur to invest in this business.
Few Indian major players are as under
· Ambe Agro Inds. Ltd.
· Arpan Foods Ltd.
· Aruppukottai Shri Ramalinga Roller Flour Mills Ltd.
· B P Food Products Pvt. Ltd.
· Bambino Food Inds. Ltd.
· Bannari Amman Flour Mill Ltd.