A COMPREHENSIVE & PRACTICAL GUIDE ON HOW TO START CASSAVA FARMING & PROCESSING BUSINESS By: Micheal B. O. HOW TO START CASSAVA PROCESSING BUSINESS
IMPORTANT FOODS THAT ARE DERIVED FROM CASSAVA
Cassava can be processed into a number of products such as starch, flour, chips, ethanol and glucose syrup, and bread to name a few. These products are all in high demand locally and also have significant export possibilities. These therefore, place a lot of raw cash in the hands of anyone who has the product. As a smart person, you should be thinking about how to take advantage of government support for agriculture and the increased budget to make wealth for yourself because cassava farming surely provides opportunity for investors.
Processing involves the production of:
• Gari
• Flour
• Starch
• Chips
• Ethanol
• Glucose
• Confectionery
• Bakery
• Glue
• Livestock Feed
There are many products that is derived from Cassava; Gari( Modern Gari for Export), Chips, Tampioca, Fufu( odorless), etc. These are Mega Money Making Venture that yield very fast. With value added to the same produce, you sell @ higher price N100,000-N120,000 per ton of processed cassava. N120,000 x 30tons = N3.6m turnover. There are equipment that can produce between 1ton – 25tonnes of Flour, Gari, Fufu, Chips per day. And the fixed and variable cost are minimal with modern technology.
HOW TO PROCESS CASSAVA INTO FLOUR USED FOR CONFECTIONERY Cassava flour in a very important ingredient in profitable production of bread. In the year 2001 Nigerian president was a farmer so had a first hand knowledge of what problems farmers were facing and the fact that Nigerian government was spending huge amount of money on wheat which is used to produce bread and some other confectioneries.
The government directed Federal Institute of Industrial Research to find ways of including local raw materials in the production of bread. The outcome of the research is that cassava flour can be mixed with wheat at up to 10 % without any adverse effect on the taste and texture of the product. The federal government then mandated all the flour mill to include cassava flour in their product since then.
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