Flour Quality Guide deepens relationships between the field and manufacturers

The Brazilian Wheat Industry Association (Abitrigo) and the company Biotrigo Genética produced, in partnership, the Flour Quality Guide, a publication that focuses on the quality of wheat from a rheological aspect, adapting it to different applications.

The objective of the guide is to inform producers and cereal growers about the processes carried out on wheat flour by the milling industry, considering the current scenario of population growth and the consequent increase in cereal consumption. “The guide aims to deepen and specialize the relationship between the field and manufacturers”, highlights the executive president of Abitrigo, Rubens Barbosa.

The president also explains that a large part of the quality of the industry's products is defined by the specifications of the wheat, which, in turn, depends on the choice of cultivars when sowing. “By better defining your quality standards at an early stage, opportunities arise to improve the quality and costs of the chain as a whole.”

The union of the chain was also a factor taken into consideration for the production of the Flour Quality Guide, as reinforced by Abitrigo's superintendent, Eduardo Assêncio. “Initiatives focused on informing producers about the demands that occur at the end of the chain are fundamental. The more we do this integration, the more we will be able to make the wheat chain move in a homogeneous way and generating value in all its links”.

The production of this guide received the collaboration of several mills associated with Abitrigo, which represent 70% of Brazilian milling, according to the Association's institutional relations representative and project coordinator, Silvio César Souza. “These mills understood the importance of creating this material, demonstrating how important the quality of wheat is to developing good flour.”

“We believe that information generates knowledge and we want to make the producer, a very important link in this chain, aware of the importance of these analyzes and classifications”, concludes the product development manager for industry at Biotrigo, Kênia Meneguzzi.

The publication can be accessed here.