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  • STARCH-BASED INDUSTRY
    Starch is produced from grain or root crops, and its usage diversified, and vary with the continuous economic and technological developments. In Vietnam, root crops, especially cassava, have been the traditional sources of starch for use in food products. Starch can be classified into two types ¡X native and modified. Native starches are produced through the separation of naturally occurring starch from either grain or root crops, such as cassava, maize and sweet potato, and can be used directly in certain food production such as noodles.

    For those characteristics which are unattainable with native starch, it can be used for other industrial applications through a series of modification steps. Modification can be as simple as sterilizing products required for the pharmaceutical industry to highly complex chemical modification to confer properties totally different from the native starch.

    Simple modification is represented by washing, air classification, centrifugation and pre-gelatinization. The later process can be done in many forms from boiling in crude pots to drum dryers to modern multi-screw extruders. Modified starch products are used in the food, paper and textiles industries.

    The most common non-food applications for modified starches are as follows:¡X


    The Directors expect that in the future, the starch-based product industry, both in Asia and the rest of the world, will develop towards the production of higher-valued modified starches from root crops, including cassava. The principal raw materials for modified starches are corn starch and cassava starch in Asia, maize starch in North America and potato starch in Europe. As the starch-using industries, such as the food industry, the paper industry and the textile industry, are expected to continue to develop in Asian countries, the Directors believe that the range of starch-derived intermediate and end-products produced from cassava will continue to expand.

    The total revenue for starch and starch-based products in the PRC in 2001 was approximately RMB14,606 million (equivalent to approximately US$1,848.9 million), representing an increase of approximately 15.8 per cent. as compared with that in 2000. The demand for starch-based products by food and non-food industries in Asia is also growing steadily. It is expected that the demand for modified starch, particularly
    for non-food industries, will grow at a faster pace than the demand for native starch.



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