starch

" The Chinese starch industry is a sun-rising industry, and can get the State’s support on policy because of its driving the development of agriculture. The Chinese starch industry is in the growth period of products with large development potential. The per capita possession of starch is 7.2 kg, which is 8％ of that in the U.S., 31％ of that in Japan, lower than the average per capita consumption level of Thailand, therefore the Chinese starch industry still has the large development space. Starch can be applied extensively to many fields such as food, pharmaceutical, chemical, paper-making, petroleum, etc. with wide development prospect. With the constant development of science and technology, the increase of new types of starch, starch sugar and starch derivatives, and the R&D acceleration of starch deep-processed products also drive the fast development of the starch industry. In the meantime, with the continuous improvement of self development and innovations, a variety of new technology and new equipment developed domestically for starch and deep-processed products have formed up self-owned intelligent property and famous brands. China has more than 300 modified starch producers. Most of them are small enterprises with an annual output of several thousand tons. "