How to start cassava chips processing business?

The cassava chips processing business is very popular in the world. Europe likes to import cassava chips for food and feed, and China has a large amount of cassava chips importrequirements for industrial use such as alcohol production. In African countries such as Nigeria, cassava raw materials is available easily, so doing cassava chips processing business there is very profitable. But how to start a cassava chips processing business ? This article wil give you some suggestions.

Cassava chips

Funding: To start a cassava chips processing business, money is necessary. The cassava business mainly includes cassava starch, cassava flour, garri, cassava chips and cassava pellet. The investment required for cassava chips is minimal, especially for cassava chips used as feed. If you have a small budget, you just need to buy a cassava chips machine. Of course, you also need to prepare some the operating funds.

Equipment: Depending on your budget, we can offer different sizes of cassava chips machine. The simplest machine is cassava peeling and slicing machine which combining cassava peel and chipping as one, so that you only need to put cassava into the machine and dry. If you have extra budget, you can buy a cassava chips dryer, which can make sure the processing of cassava chips will not affected by the weather factor.

Sufficient raw materials: It is best for you to have a cassava plantation for cassava chips processing business. If not, you'd better to build the plant near the cassava plantation. This is not only convenient for you to buy cassava from farmers, but also can reduce the loss caused by cassava rot.

Then you need ample power supply, water supply, processing staff (small cassava chips processing factory only need 3-5 people) and so on.

Cassava chips machine

The above is the suggestion of cassava chips processing business. If you want to get your investment back quickly, the factory can implement two shifts, so that the processing and production capacity of cassava chips factory can be doubled. And accordingly your profits will also increase greatly.

Cassava chips are important industrial processing materials that can be used in the wine, pharmaceutical, food, animal feed and other industries. Nigeria’s demand for cassava chips is estimated to exceed 1,500,000 tons per year. Countries like China and Europe also have large import demand for cassava chips. Now the governments of Nigeria and other African countries are strongly supporting the cassava business, so it is a wise choice to carry out the cassava chips processing business as soon as possible to take the market share.