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Standard Project Report 2016
programme was implemented in 10 districts with the involvement of 11 mills.
However, there remained a huge gap to be filled considering industrial mills supply about 50 percent of the demand
for wheat flour in Pakistan. Demand for industrially milled flour is growing, although flour produced by small-scale
chakki mills will continue to supply a large proportion (the remaining 50 percent) of domestic demand. There are an
estimated 30,000-50,000 chakki mills in operation throughout the country, in both rural and urban areas, with a
typical individual milling capacity of 500-1,500 kg of flour per day. Largely unorganised and informal, the chakki mill
sector is not associated with the Pakistan Flour Mills Association and is unlikely to be targeted by industrially
focused wheat flour fortification.
Appropriate technology for village-level wheat flour fortification does exist (such as small-scale, semi-automatic
premix micro-feeders for use with grind stone techniques). WFP believes that the efforts to disseminate and
encourage the uptake of these technologies could improve wheat flour fortification coverage significantly.
WFP plans to target small chakki mills in the rural areas of Islamabad to show evidence of the effectiveness of this
fortification model. The results of this project will enable the Government to roll out the programme at the national
level, benefiting a large, highly vulnerable section of the population.
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