About 10, 000 years ago when man began to till the soil, when he learned to breed new grasses from the seed of the wild plant, But it was to be another 4, 000 years before our ancestors discovered that these seeds can be crushed between simple grindstones.Flour has become the daily food of millions. The cereal powder that feed a large proportion of the world's population is the result of thousands of years of development. The history of flour is one of brilliant innovation and growing prosperity, but also of famine and hardship. Cereals, flour and bread are inseparably bound up with human civilization: wherever enough could be harvested, ground and baked, the economy flourished and culture emerged.
Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India 