IMPROVEMENT OF FOOD PROCESSING TECHNIQUES IN CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700160358-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 358
• Publication Date: March 2, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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LMPROVEMENT OF FOOD Pi?OCESSIIiG TECHNIQUES IN CHINA
Cary: Grain processors throughout China are trying to
carry out the orders of the Central People's Government to in-
crease the proportion of flour and processed rice obtained from
unprocessed grain. Large savings are reported from various areas.
In Kwangtung a modern cannery and new sugar mill are turning
out better producte~
MILLING ME?PHODS INCREASE FLOUR OUTPUT __ Tientsin, Ta Kung Pao, 20 Oct 53
Mukden, 17 October (Hain-hua She -_ gy improving milling techniques,
the grain processors of the Northeast will be able to save 51,721 tons of
grain during 1953, enough to feed 3 million persons for a month. Nine
state-operated flour mills have increased their production capacity by
22.7 percent. Mukden mills are now producing 81.27 catties of flour per
100 catties of wheat ~he national legal standard is 81 cattie~ and
Harbin mills 82.14 catties.
In one Harbin processing plant, improved methods will save 8,417 tans
of millet by the end of the year. A rice processing plant in Liaosi has
been able to raise its output of finished rice from 70 to 82 cattiea per
hundred catties of unprocessed rice.
FLOUR OUTPUT INCREASED IN HONAN pND SHAIiTUNG __ Tientsin, Ta Kung Pap,
17 oct 53
During the period April to September, flour millers in Honan succeeded
in increasing the output of flour from 81 catties to 85 catties per 100
catties of wheat by reducing the degree of refinement in line with the call
of the government to increase flour reserves in the country. Thus,
4,019,743 catties of extra flour have been produced from the wheat milled.
The Shang-ch'iu, Honan, flour mill has raised its flour output from
83 to 88 catties per 100 catties of wheat. The flonnn provincial Department
of Food is bringing parties of millers from other places to study the methods
used.
The Ta-ho-yuan flour mill nt An-yang, Honan, has raised the amount of
flour produced to 91 catties per 100 catties of wheat.
Statistics for Shantung Province for the first 6 months of 1953 show
thst the average flour production was 82.55 catties per 100 catties of
wheat. The Shantung provincial Department of Foad has established a so-
ca~.led "standard brand" for the province, which calls for production of
85.82 catties of flour from each 100 catties of flour milled.
On the basis of the present rate of milling activity, this is cal-
culated to make possible an annual saving of 33,170,000 catties of wheat
in Shantung.
Chemical tests reveal that the new standar3 flour contains substantial
increases of fats, protein, and vitamins. Hiking qualities are not impaired.
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HAN-TAN FLOUR MILLING CALLED WASTEFUL __ Pao-tang, Hopeh Jih-Pao, 9 Apr 53
A letter to the editor, dated 13 March 1953, stated that because of poor
grinding and sifting by Ylour millers of the Wu-an and Tz'u-hsin special
administrative districts in Hopeh, 103,6b5 catties of flour worth 62,210,000
Yuan were xasted. The inefficient sifting of 564,000 catties of bran xas
involved.
WU-HSI FLOUR MTT?TR INCREASE EFFICIENCY -- Tientsin, Ta Kung Pao, 7 Oct 53
Nanking, 6 October (Rain-hua She -- Flour millers in Wu-hai, Kiangsu, have
cut down the amount of flour lost in bran during the first 9 months of 1953
The loss was reduced Prom 3 percent to 2 percent and 5,600,000,000 Yuan were
saved. Thls is 1,400,000,000 over the goal set for them by the Central People's
Government.
PRIVATE GRAIN PROCESSORS INSPECTED __ Tientsin, Ta Kung Pao, 27 Oct 53
In Szechwan, 67 percent of the food processing has been subcontracted to
private firms by the various state food handling agencies. The Food Department
of the province has sent out teams of inspectors to check on these firms and
to eid them in improving their processing.
IMPROVED PROCESSItIC ORDERED IN SZECHNAN -- Tientsin, Ta Kung Pao, 20 Oct 53
Ch'eng-tu, 16 October -- The provincial Food Department in Szechwan has
issued nn order to increase the amount of first-class processed rice by 22
catties from 722 catties to 75 catties, and of second-class by one catties, or
from 712 catties to 722 catties, per 100 catties of unprocessed rice.
KWANGTUNG FOOD CANNERY MODERNIZED __ gong Kong, Ta Kung Pao, 2 Dec 53
Much technical progress is being made in the Swatow Food Cannery, which
produces canned pineapple, lichees, longans, oranges, bananas, pork, chicken,
i-.uck, and fish.
Workmen have been inventing and building automatic mechanical pine-
apple paters (capable of paring 25 pineapples a minute), corers (able to core
20 a minute), syrup injectors, slicers, packers, can-making machines, can
washers, and sealers. With this machinery the product has reached inter-
national canning standards. The production has been greatly increased, uni-
formity established, and spoilage of finished products minimized.
FIRST SUGAR MILL UIJDER 5-YEAR PLAN __ Hong Kong, Ta Kung Pao, 11 Dec 53
Canton, 10 December (Chung-kuo Hsin-wen She) -- The state-operated Tzu-ni
sugar mill, first of a number to be built in Kwangtung and Kwangsi under the'
first 5-year plan, has been opened. Its capacity is 15,000 metric tons a year.
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