How profitable is flour manufacturing in India during Covid-19?
Food processing companies are left in a pathetic situation due to Covid 19 because of shutting processing units, decreased customers, and poor revenue. They are forced to find “innovative methods” and “automation” as there’s a shortage of manforce in factories as well as small and micro packaging units across India. And the largest impact can be seen in Flour Industry. Hungry and poor migrants started trudging through unimaginable distances to reach their native places and the ones who couldn’t they remained confined inside crudely-built shelter homes by respective state governments. Industrialists who are planning to reopen their factories feel that the labourers may not immediately return to work in such situations. But now despite labour shortage, supplies to retail stores have improved, demand for wheat flour remains robust. During the lockdown, when all the economic activities were suspended, the government made provisions for essentials to continue being sold through retail...