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European Maize Source Material for Wet‐Milling Industries. Activities of the Technical Committee of the E. C. Maize Starch Industries
Author(s) -
Beaux Y.,
Lasseran J. C.,
Kempf W.,
Guilbot A.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
starch ‐ stärke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.62
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1521-379X
pISSN - 0038-9056
DOI - 10.1002/star.19740261102
Subject(s) - agricultural science , industrialisation , starch , quality (philosophy) , business , maturity (psychological) , agricultural economics , microbiology and biotechnology , agronomy , political science , economics , biology , law , food science , philosophy , epistemology
Abstract European maize wet‐milling industries process 3.2 million t of maize per year. For this supply the world market share decreases progressively to the E. C. market's advantage. Manufacturers have not always a long experience of such maize, the quality of which is variable. The increasing number of cultivated varieties, the changes of maturity conditions according to years, and the evolution of the harvesting‐drying‐preserving sequence towards an industrialisation, emphasize the variations of E. C. maize wet‐milling quality. The immediate care of manufacturers is therefore to have available simple and rapid methods for the appreciation of this quality. Then, these methods will have to be applied to the determination of good conditions of maize production for this industry. Ensuing french studies, a concerted research program has been developed since the beginning of 1973 on the basis of the previous remarks. The coordination of these studies is undertaken by a Technical Committee of E. C. Maize Starch Industry grouping research institutes, i. e. I. T. C. F. (Technical Institute for Cereals and Forages, France), I.N.R.A. (National Institute of Agronomic Research, France), F.R.I.C.I. (Federal Research Institute of Cereal Industry, Germany), professional associations, i.e. A.G.P.M. (General Maize Growers Association, France), A.A.M. (Association of the Maize Starch Industries of the E.C., Belgium), and a representative of manufacturers for each member country. The work done in 1973 represents the preliminary phase of these studies, and was carried out on samples from 1972 harvest, crop year abnormaly unfavourable for maize growing. The results obtained are therefore mostly on a methodology level, and the main purpose of the 1974 research program is to confirm and complete these informations.