How do I start a cassava chips plant?

How do I start a cassava chips plant?

Cassava root could be process into multitude of products, including cassava chips, cassava flour, cassava starch and garri. All of the above products represent potential market development opportunities for cassava processing. While some cassava is sold as fresh roots or leaves, even these products usually receive some special post-harvest handling or treatment before they are consumed.

As cassava normally requires some form of processing before it can be consumed or sold, processing is of central importance in the future of the crop. In Nigeria, many small farmers choose to start a cassava chips plant and process cassava into cassava chips. Dry cassava chips are easy to be stored. While the market potentials are great, it must be remembered that these opportunities are location and time specific. Because of the specificity of market opportunities it is impossible to compile a list of priority market opportunities. The following section, however, does attempt to highlight some the benefits and challenges that might be encountered when attempting to develop different types of cassava markets.

It’s easy to start a cassava chips plant, there are flour steps during the cassava chips processing:

Cassava chips machine

Step 1: Cassava harvesting

Harvest matured cassava from the farm and load it to the processing shed immediately. If the quantity of cassava harvested can not be carried in the same day for logistic reasons do not detach the cassava from the stem and leaf until the vehicle to carry it is ready. That is to say, fermentation will not occur if the cassava is still attached to the leaf and stem even if it has been uprooted. But care must be taken not to bruise the cassava when uprooting it.

Step 2: Cassava washing and peeling

Our cassava peeler could handling large capacity of cassava and well cleaning. This cassava peeler machine is with stable operation and easy maintenance etc. 1. peeling 2. washing 3. do not hurt the material 4. material to the next stage automatically.

Cassava washing and peeling machine

Step 3: Cassava chipping

The next unit operation is chipping. As is common in household processing this is done by hand or by a simple machine which consists of a driven disc with radial chipping slots fitted with cutting blades. The type consists of a heavy rotating circular steel plate about 12 mm thick and 1m in diameter to which six blades are attached. The blade consists of a 1-1.5 mm steel plate that is corrugated at the cutting edge. The chipping wheels are usually mounted in wooden frames incorporating feed hoppers and driven by petrol, diesel, kerosine or electric motors.

Cassava chips

Step 4: Cassava drying

Drying methods can be classified according to the technological level and cost. Natural drying, one of the methods, is done on cement floors which are sometimes painted black for better absorption of radiant energy or on trays for artificial drying. In artificial heat dryers, all these parameters can be optimized to minimize the drying time and guarantee a high quality product.

Above article is all introduction about the cassava chips plant, if you want to get more informations about the cassava chips machine,weclome to contact us when you are free.We wil service you at 24 hours.