Follow-up Study on Technical Appraisals of Producers (Flour and Oil) for Enhancing Partnership in Food Fortification Project (IPS)

Agency : Project Monitoring Unit –Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The main purpose of the studywas to followthe producers (flour mills and oil mills) covered under the categories of Technical Assessment to explore the creation of new partnerships and making the existing partnerships more operational in terms of fortified production and supply. The objectives of the study were to understand the factors which had influenced the mill owners for joining the program and to study the factors which had restrained the millers to join the food fortification project. The study was commissioned by PMU-GAIN on ‘Scoping Assessment for Fortification through Identified Manufactures, and Flour Mills and Oil Producers in Rajasthan’. In the study, a total of 112 mills (95 wheat flour and 17 oil mills) were visited and mill owners/ managers of the mills in 17 districts of Rajasthan were interviewed. The study found that 40 mills were willing to participate in the food fortification project. A majority of the wheat flour mill owners needed continuous training on the food fortification project. They also expressed the need of a test kit or tie-up with any local laboratory for regularly testing premix and finished product. IEC activities to generate awareness of the importance of fortified foods among consumers through advertisements in local channels with fortified brand names of wheat flour and oil producers were also indentified as major issues. The study findings also presented the scope for research in public nutrition as well as food fortification services in the State.


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