Food barley, food barley

The Vilion company owns seed farms in the Tambov region. The total area of agricultural land is 22 thousand hectares. Storage and processing of products is carried out directly in their own farms on modern equipment and at their own grain - receiving enterprise - LLC Nikiforovskoe HPP (Tambov region) - with a total capacity of 50,000 tons of one - time storage with the possibility of expansion.

Barley is an agricultural plant that satisfies not only food and feed needs, but also technical purposes.

Barley is grown for grain, green manure and as a fodder base for livestock.

A grain of barley, a nutritious product, a cereal from which cereals, flour and even a coffee drink are obtained during processing. Barley grain is actively used in brewing, but barley flour is rarely used for the production of bakery products, due to the low level of gluten, which adversely affects the quality of bread.

Barley is used in a wide variety of industries. The bulk of the harvested grain is converted into cereals (for example, ordinary pearl barley is made from barley). Barley flour is used as an additive in baking many types of bread. Bread is not baked entirely from barley flour - it crumbles heavily and stale too quickly. Barley flour is also used to make a coffee substitute that does not contain caffeine.

A significant amount of grain is spent on the production of raw materials for breweries - while the grain is germinated to obtain malt. Also, barley grain serves as a raw material in the production of edible grain alcohol (in the manufacture of such well - known alcoholic beverages as Scotch whiskey and English gin).

In addition to being used in the food industry, barley serves as the basis for the production of feed. Unrefined barley grain is added to feed for pigs and horses, since it surpasses even oats in nutritional value. Barley straw is also used as food for livestock.