Hermes continued, "Improving the taste of food does not necessarily mean following conventional methods. Take tofu pudding, for example: some people like it sweet, some salty, and some spicy. Every kind of flavor has a sizable market; it was simply that not many people had paid attention to this before. This is an opportunity for our city's food-processing enterprises."
"Take flour mills. Relying on flour mills, we can develop biscuit factories. And if biscuit factories want to produce biscuits in more flavors, demand for sugar, salt, dried fruit, and other such things will naturally increase. On that basis, we can further develop raw material supply factories."
Randall and the others carefully considered the scenario Hermes had described and had to admit that it made a great deal of sense.
Randall said, "We can conduct some preliminary trials. If the results are significant, we can gradually develop the supporting industries step by step."
Hermes said, "I cannot speak for other places, but there will absolutely be no problem within this entire region. Of course, if we are only meeting the needs of this city's residents, there is no need for an overly large scale. Small and medium-sized factories will be enough."
This was, in fact, the establishment of local food-processing enterprises, something fairly common in East Africa. However, at present, East African food-processing companies produced far too narrow a range of goods, while Iringa City intended to build its food industry around meeting different "demands."
Hermes continued, "The food-processing industry is only a rather basic industry. We should make full use of our city's wheat to establish related industrial arrangements."
"East Africa also has a resource that has long been overlooked. If we can put it to use, I believe our city's light industry will receive a tremendous boost."
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