FLOUR MILL UNIT

Abstract

In Laos, every traditional village house has an in-house flourmill to cater to the! flour needs of the household. These are mainly hand held stone based traditional I units. Taking into consideration the local needs and market requirement, there is a I very high potential for commercial flour mills especially because of lack of time! among the house holds to mill the flour. More over, there are many industries. .especlallv in the area of biscuit manufacturing, noodles manufacturing, bread ;bakers etc being set up that flour mill business could be of high potential. Flourmills I 'can be established at different levels i.e. domestic flourmills, commercial flourmills, I bakery / mini flourmills and roller flourrnill. The most useful out of these flour mills i is the flour mill on commercial levels because not only can these be established at: a lower cost but is versatile as well - since flour can be obtained from it for commercial purposes and it can also take up job work. In every village or a locality within the city, with about 800-1000 families such flourmills can be set up. These: are as important in towns or any urban area as in rural area. Looking at the utilityj and profits involved in this unit, it has been presented under which job work would I be taken up and flour would be produced for commercial purposes as well.